Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secondly, Tanganyika has had no bitter experience with colonialism in recent years. Its brief encounter with the Germans is almost forgotten today. In 1884, the fast-moving explorer Karl Peters swung through Tanganyika and in six weeks made treaties with twelve chiefs to make Tanganyika a German territory. Harsh administrators, the Germans put down rising after rising, the most serious being the Maji-Maji rebellion in 1905, repressed the people so cruelly that any colonial power to follow could only have seemed gentle by comparison. After World War I, when the British threw the Germans out, Tanganyika became a British...
...course ends Sunday night with a brief ceremony at which new Cursillistas explain what the experience has meant to them. Since follow-up is all important, the graduates are encouraged to meet with other Cursillistas once a week. After taking the course most graduates also subscribe to the movement's bilingual monthly magazine Ultreya (Beyond...
President Pusey said the structure "handsomely met a need of long standing." Brief adresses were given by Dean Ford, Harvey Brooks, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, and Courtland S. Gross '27, Chairman of the Overseers Visiting Committee on Engineering and Applied Physics...
...YUGOSLAVIA. "As a nonaligned state, it has gained influence among the uncommitted nations of the world. Sometimes it agrees with the Soviet Union on particular points of foreign policy, sometimes not. In brief, Yugoslavia is an independent state...
...foretelling his downfall, counsellors feeding his ego. Once in a while a reader stands out from the faceless crowd--Dean Gitter as Cosroe and Phillip Hecksher as Techelles bring some life to their parts. A few of the 42 parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that he is weak. But the lines become so repetitious that the characters for the most part float by unnoticed...