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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone, for example, must swim 50 yards under 60 seconds. On the basis of his total score, each student is rated on "A", "B", or "C". The "A" may drop physical training, the "B" may select his sport, and the "C" is assigned to some exercise by the Physical Department...
Advisers, of course, are limited by time, but most find the time and interest to go well beyond this narrow study-card approach. Harold C. Martin, director of General Education Ahf, for instance, sees an an important function for advisers the help they can give to students to get through the "machinery and red-tape of Harvard." "All the advising system is, in the end," says Martin, "is a substitute for the kind of explanation one would give to a stranger or a guest if he came to one's house...
...Robert C. Milton, '56 of Winthrop House and Worcester has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for 1956-57. He will spend next year as Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, England...
Concert of three of the most meaty and grand violin-and-piano sonatas in Paine Hall Friday: the Brahms A-Major, Prokofiev D-Major, and Bee-thoven C-Minor. More laurels to Dunster pianist Robert Freeman for the impeccable and consistently compelling performance that we have come to expect of him. Violinist David Spencer, a Wesleyan junior, left much to be desired. His playing lacked tension, was matter-of-fact and on the surface, and at times harsh and out of tune. He is definitely no Heifetz or Hurwitz...
...Labor wholesale price index, steel prices between 1939 and April 1956 rose 131%. about the average for all commodities. However, many industries where demand was also high got much bigger price boosts, e.g., nonferrous metals went up 195%, lumber and wood products 305%. Furthermore, as Republic Steel President C. M. White points out, the industry's net income in relation to its worth has usually lagged well behind other industries. As one result, says White, steel stocks have a market value of only eight to ten times earnings, while chemical stocks sell at 20 to 30 times earnings. Because...