Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demanded, in the face of two previous turndowns, that Syria cooperate to allow repair of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline cut by saboteurs during the Egyptian hostilities. Declared Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.: "Unless work begins immediately . . . the oil situation will be aggravated, which means in human terms cold and hunger not only in Europe but in Asia and South America...
...have said nothing about such miscellaneous diversions as safety campaigns, fire-prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
Robert F. Oxnam, B.U.'s Vice President for Administrative Affairs, confirmed the agreement, but said he could not release the terms of the sale yet. He said he did not know when B.U. would have the needed building and dormitory facilities in Boston to allow Sargent to move, but another source named 1959 as a likely date...
...more frequent objection is, however, that the existing resources of the college do not allow it to fulfill its obligation to creative scholarship and simultaneously to undertake a comprehensive teaching program through tutorial, seminars and conferences. "There is not time enough for those who are here to really work on tutorial, nor money enough to bring in more men," as one faculty member put it, explaining that "adequate preparation for a tutorial session takes ten to twenty hours...
...Student Employment Office does not pride iself so much on being an important part of the University as it does on helping the individual student. Whether it is a matter of lightening a work load to help marks, rescheduling a job to allow time for extracurricular activities, or simply offering personal advice, the Office wants to be helpful. And with this kind of philosophy, it generally is.A student bartender, in heavy demand at this season, pours a drink at party...