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...largest problem in the first year of the College's Advanced Standing program was the difficulty of making Harvard's course exemption standards conform with those of other colleges, Harlan P. Hanson, Director of the Office of Advanced Standing, announced in his first annual report Tuesday...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Hanson States Need for Uniformity In College Exemption Requirements | 12/8/1955 | See Source »

...fifth and last year of teaching for the very same reason as Miss Dunn's. I have been considered a radical and even undemocratic when expressing my views, which in no way conform with those of "modern educators." The entire public-education system needs a rejuvenation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Perhaps the most typically Baptist thing about Pastor Adams is that he does not conform to the Baptist pattern. And the pattern itself is changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oldtime Religion | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...individuality so tautly drawn between the twin Spanish columns of dignity and passion could never conform to the crude consequences of his own controverting eloquence. His victories defeated him. Three years before Hitler came to power, Ortega wrote a famous book with the prophetic title: The Revolt of the Masses. In the U.S., and in Europe as well, it was a Depression-time bestseller, whose striking Nietzschean phrases punctuated parlor talk and political arguments about whether, in the 20th century technological civilization, mass man tends to supplant the elite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Death of a Philosopher | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...psychological tie-in between Colonel Stapp's stern parents and his obviously masochistic choice of career [Sept. 12]. The religiously strict father, and the mother who "tried to strap the unruly youngster in bed," surely drove him to rebel (in pursuit of scientific studies), but later to conform, strapping himself into the rocket sled in death-bent compensation. The many protective straps that he has invented, as well as other devices, show a fortunate outcome of an emotionally unhealthy childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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