Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern colleges and University of Chicago's peppery President Robert Maynard Hutchins traded whiffs of grapeshot last week over Chicago's new two-year bachelor's degree. When members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools denounced the Hutchins plan as "cheapening . . . the baccalaureate degree," Hutchins wired them a challenge: let their graduating seniors try the examinations to be given to sophomores for Chicago's baccalaureate...
Born in Lynn 64 years ago, he received his bachelor's degree...
...Bachelor Duck has complained about a lot of things, but his salary ($2,501) is not one of them. Its revelation is pure patriotism on his part. His employer, Walt Disney (whose reputation is any thing but a pinchpenny's), was asked by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to make a picture reminding U.S. citizens that millions of them are expected to pay an income tax for the first time this year...
Duration. Most colleges are now on a three-semester system (fall & winter, spring, summer) and students can get their degrees in from two and a third to four years (depending on whether they study summers). Professional schools have decided to admit collegians without a bachelor's degree, cut their course to three years (medicine) or two (law). Vacations, including the Christmas holidays, will be cut to four weeks a year all told...
...other end of the bill, "Married Bachelor," is a B picture which pulled itself up to an A--in time to get the whole show into Group 1. Without any really startling touches this story of the happily married bookie, forced by "circumstances" to pose as the author of that unbelievable best-seller, "A Bachelor Looks at Marriage," proves sound enough in all departments to provide an amusing introduction for the thrills to follow. While the hardly insignificant talent and figure of Ruth Hussey make the picture something more than time filler...