Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a further conciliatory gesture, Sir Hugh Foot had written a letter to the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, offering to let him return to the island once violence ceased. Climbing down slightly from past positions, Makarios no longer rejected a "transitory stage of self-government." But he was...
¶ Overhaul of the Army's training program, increasing the training period from nine months plus a year's probation to two years' training and a year's probation. ¶ Revision of criteria for the 600-man teaching staff; in addition to good character, familiarity with...
Out of these squalid though sometimes cruelly moving episodes, Yozo emerges with a stoic creed-"Everything passes." Almost alone among recent Japanese literary imports, No Longer Human is strikingly free of cherry-blossom reveries and puzzling Oriental character motivations. If the author's identity were unknown, this novel might...
The National Education Association, strident P.T.A. chapters throughout the nation, school boards, and educational theorists hiding in our universities, have elaborate programs for action. Unfortunately, the ghost of "progressive education" haunts any program of experiment. The failure of total student freedom in the classroom, the neglect of basic skills for...
At the exercises, Dean Leighton will present the Ames Awards for self-reliance, character, and leadership to Arthur E. Reider '58 of Eliot House and San Francisco and Michael Wortis '58 of Lowell House and New York City.