Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...big noise around the Physics Department is always the atom-smasher. Research Fellow Lee L. Davenport has already assembled most of his cyclotron, and is now tinkering around with the small parts...
General Education is gradually getting ready to take on its big, new role in undergraduate instruction. Last week the University announced the appointment of the first full professor and five assistant professors in GE. This means that when the Faculty's new program for guided distribution and compulsory GE starts working next fall, GE will claim half the teaching time and will pay (out of its own budget) half the salaries of the six recent appointees. With a core of teachers it can call partially its own, GE will be able to plan its future with confidence and competence...
Applicants in 1948 gave a big plurality to Lowell House. Then came Winthrop, Eliot, Kirkland, Adams, Dunster, and Leverett...
...big surprise last year was the high place for Winthrop House, which many students had applied to because they felt it was easy to get into. According to this year's poll, several freshmen have chosen Dunster for the same reason...
Last year's freshmen also chose friends in the Houses as the big factor in their choice. About 35 percent gave this as the reason, while location was another high-ranking consideration...