Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although no one is certain of the exact date of their beginning, the Gardens were already highly developed in the nineties. There professor Gray did research work for Charles Darwin, sending the results across the ocean to the author, who used them in developing his theories. In gratitude Darwin forwarded the proofs of "Origin of the Species" to Gray long before the book went to press...
...compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than the Army owned; that an error in calculation tacked on $30,000,000 more to the budget. The Commission recommends that the Secretary of Defense be given absolute authority over a reorganized department in which the three service secretaries would be directly responsible to him; he would have...
...quality is excusable, yet the Music Club has demonstrated that there are enough first rate violinists around Cambridge. The few ragged entrances are unforgivable, however, and the responsibility must be laid to conductor Holmes. Judging by the success with which the Orchestra has filled its peripheral areas, I feel certain that the few failings of the central section can be eliminated...
...certainly surprised at the CRIMSON editorial blaspheming the Latin or Greek reading requirements for House Candidates in English, as out-dated and worthless. The arguments used against the classical requirement are notably distorted: The defense of the requirement is not historical but based on the fact that the peculiar merits and universalities of the Latin and Greek languages are basic to the study of English. Certainly, the classics are excellent training for the serious student of English in vocabulary, Latin and Greek certainly were NOT the only non-scientific fields in the "olden-days", that time "wasted" on languages...
...only makes those working for Honors work a little more. (Most of them have probably all had at least two years of Latin in prop school.) It is hardly worth arguing that a course saved by elimination of the classics requirement would enable an English, as all fields have certain prerequisites. Do you expect some English concentrator to study an economic, field, for example, without even having taken the basic course in economics? John E. Rexine...