Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee has many basic responsibilities now and in the future, Weld said. It is responsible for reunions, keeps contacts between members, puts out reports, and raises money for its own and University functions. It is the closest link between the alumni and the College...
...basic mistake of Signature's editors was to ignore better material just in order to have a drama issue. There is certainly a need for a magazine that will print the best student writing both at Harvard and at Radcliffe, but the more poor stuff is published, the fewer writers will contribute. It is up to Signature itself to break the vicious circle by campaigning for the material, and its new contest is an important step. But the editors' obvious fear of being called neurotic or esoteric, coupled with their desire to print trash on the assumption that it will...
...lead to improper personal associations, which often "prove embarrassing to themselves, cause financial difficulties for their parents, and tend upon other disorders." The Corporation thereupon voted to make illegal participation in, or attendance at, any sort of theatrical entertainment by students in Harvard College. This rule represents the basic philosophy that has been the power behind the dramatic scene in the University to the present...
...hampered by their size and by the almost complete impossibility of contact with the lecturer. The selection of representative subject matter must still be largely arbitrary, and in the humanities any selection must omit important works. Even in the Natural Sciences, which are probably most suited to teaching the basic method and techniques of the field, the students have criticized many elements, including the pace of the courses, slow because of the assumption from the beginning, that students know nothing about the field of study...
...main threat to Schuman's position was a split among the Socialists, some of whom thought that Popular Republican Schuman had gone too far, that he had encroached on the workers' basic right to strike. On Sunday night the leader of the doubting Socialists, Minister of Social Affairs Daniel Mayer, called on the Premier at home...