Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets hungry enough, strange things begin to happen to his manners, his emotions and even his mind. During the war, 36 conscientious objectors volunteered as guinea pigs for experiments in human starvation. In the current Journal of Clinical Psychology, the results are reported by the researchers (Drs. Joseph C. Franklin, Burtrum C. Schiele, Josef Brozek, Ancel Keys) who conducted the experiments at the University of Minnesota's laboratory of physiological hygiene...
Rachmaninoff put the score aside, and for three years couldn't write a note. In despair he went to Dr. A. Dahl, who day after day, while Rachmaninoff slept in an armchair, repeated hypnotically, "You will begin to write." The cure finally took...
Meanwhile construction on the building itself is moving into a new stage as workers begin on the penthouse which will be the crowning glory of the Library, rising one floor from the flat roof...
Granting that students must accept the inevitability of the tuition boost, it is at the same time imperative that the College accept the increased responsibility toward students that the boost will involve. To begin with, the administration must exert every effort to keep the rise as small as possible. It must then set up competent machinery to deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during...
High-powered door-to-door solicitation of everyone in the College and the Graduate Schools will begin the morning of April 6. Faculty contributions will be requested by mail. Five dollars per man is the aim, but top committeemen have been setting their sights even higher at preliminary meetings...