Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next century, the seminar across the Common began to gather a teaching staff of its own, and by the opening of the twentieth century had a small but distinct faculty. However, during all this growth, the backbone, the drawing appeal, the top names on the Radcliffe lists were members of the Harvard Faculties. As President Eliot's elective plan widened the offerings for male scholars, the ladies also benefited, for more and more courses were given both here and the at the Annex...
...comprehensive recommendation for improvement of the quality of service and food in college dining halls should discuss all the little grievances which arise daily and propose, specific solutions. Some of the most common complaints, however, can be listed here. Cold food and overcooked vegetables result from the failure to synchronize the demand for the food in the lines and the supply from the kitchens. Serving methods are subject to question throughout the University. Plastic trays and cups are impossible to heat, and, therefore, cannot keep food warm. Although it is true that the cost of chinaware would be prohibitive, there...
...along with Chile, Brazil and Peru, had taken the lead in calling for common defense against international Communism. No nation opposed the resolution last week, but Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala wanted it broadened to include all totalitarianism. Said Venezuela's Rómulo Betancourt: "Because Communist ideas inspire against peace and security we support the resolution, but we also want to condemn the existence of other types of dictatorships which are an equal menace...
...scientists have tried to explain how the solar system began. None of the explanations is wholly adequate. The trouble is that the solar system is not a haphazard collection of planets buzzing around the sun. It has remarkable "regularities" which indicate that all its major members had a common and systematic origin...
...Habits of American Men ($3). It is a serious symposium edited by PM Columnist Albert Deutsch; most of the 13 contributors are friendly to Kinsey. But Yale Psychiatrist Robert P. Knight offers a sharp dissent to Kinsey's assumption that prevalence and normality are the same thing. The common cold, says Dr. Knight, has about the same incidence as homosexuality in Kinsey's findings (that 37% of all U.S. males have some homosexual experience). But the prevalence of colds, says Dr. Knight, does not make them "normal...