Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What will come of the world's population explosion? Optimists talk of a limit brought about by voluntary birth control. Pessimists gloom about widespread starvation, plague, or the thinning effect of nuclear war. In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Hudson Hoagland of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology suggests a third possibility. Nature, he says, has its own subtle systems for choking off excessive breeding...
Most high school seniors suppose that getting into Harvard requires a score of 700 or above (top: 800) on college-board tests. Not necessarily, say Admissions Men Fred L. Glimp and Dean K. Whitla in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Harvard more and more seeks men who may score below 500 but have something else: "a touch of greatness." High school teachers and principals are asked to weigh this quality on a high-to-low scale of 1 to 6. Glimp and Whitla wisely avoid defining it, but envision some combination of "effectiveness, energy, judgment, integrity, generosity of spirit or cussedness...
Thought you could forget about it, didn't Thought you could make yourself so busy walking around the square, looking at newsstands, buying food, making lists--that all the looming horror would somehow disappear. Well ha ha even if you've avoided every bulletin board in the College here it is big as life on our back page. Ha ha ha. Time Group Day M,W,F 8 I Tuesday, Jan. 28 M,W,F 9 II Monday, Jan. 27 M,W,F 10 III Wednesday, Jan. 29 M,W,F 11 IV Wednesday...
...other papers narrowed the search for a scapegoat. "The President's murder," wrote the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "is partly attributable to the witless fools who, in seeking to tarnish the nation's honor, have besmirched only their own by flying the United States flag upside down." The Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union took defensive note of the wave of anger that, in the first hours after Kennedy's death, seemed to focus on the far right. The assassination, said the Times-Union, "must not be allowed to become the cause célèbre for a witch...
...incubators for budding young revolutionaries. But the speaker was Rector Jorge R. Camargo of Argentina's Catholic University of Córdoba, and his words describe a notable trend in Latin America: the rise of Roman Catholic universities devoted exclusively to edu cation, where the signs on the bulletin board are mimeographed class schedules, not student calls to arms...