Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes, Hanson tries to correct certain myths--such as when he shows his advisees that they "don't have to study 60 hours a week to stay in this place." He says, "If I find a freshman who is studying too hard, I take him out and get him so lubricated that he will have to go home to bed. It doesn't work just to tell him he is working too hard; you have to show him that a responsible member of the faculty will actually keep him from studying for a while...
...field of science. Leroy S. Rouner '53, assistant dean of Freshmen in charge of assigning advisers, says that he would not assign all the scientists to science even if he could, for "that" would set the adviser up as a mere dispenser of information. The adviser should know the correct details about the field, of course, but he certainly does not have to be a physicist...
...figure for the wool-hats. Correct distance, Atlanta to Karachi: 8,700 miles...
...Cambridge regulations with zeal matching the Cambridge police department's; it also gives higher fines, probation for continued violations, and more tickets more often. This may discourage College car owners, but violates the idea that students should be treated equally with Cambridge residents. The University may well be correct that City fines are too low to be effective, but if Harvard is going to do a better job than the City Council, it might begin instead by enforcing its own overnight alternate-side parking. Continued higher fines and crackdowns may eventually cause students simply not to register their cars with...
...Pusey should tell the City Council or the city manager how to correct our problem, instead of criticizing us publicly," Vellucci concluded...