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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to President Conant, several members of the Harvard faculty have been named to assist the Committee in carrying out its work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT SERVES ON NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH COMMITTEE | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

...football managerial competition, one of the toughest in College, is a two year affair. Of the dozen or so Freshman candidates, five are chosen to compete their Sophomore year. These are required to assist in spring practice, and report back for work early in September, along with the Varsity team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Place Chosen Football Manager For 1943 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...cost of the project will be between $1,000 and $2,000, which the Council hopes to raise from alumni. The Order Department of the Library will assist in the purchasing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL TO DONATE 12 SPECIAL "WAR LIBRARIES" | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

...assist him in editing the Review, Chapman shrewdly imported Marian Evans from the country, installed her in his home as a boarder. She was not the first. Marian soon discovered that Chapman made a practice of renting room's to women who could distract him mentally while their board contributed to the upkeep of his publishing business. Marian had been preceded by the authoress of a learned novel on ancient Egypt who was known to her enemies as Miss Sennacherib. Co-boarding with Miss Sennacherib was Miss Tilley, who acted as the mistress of Chapman and the governess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Chapman's Ladies | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

College officials attribute the decline in course papers to "administrative difficulties." Few professors, they say, can afford the time necessary to assign original topics, assist students individually, and mark papers. But if hour exams, whenever practicable, were abolished, course staffs would be able to give more time to going over long essays. Opponents of the course thesis point out that 20 years ago Harvard went to extremes in demanding written work. Then every history course required either a thesis or essay, and much of the work submitted was more hastily thrown together than an English A assignment; many papers were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITERS CHAMPED | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

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