Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered a violation and had acted upon it--by declaring a Yale football player ineligible from intercollegiate competition. While such a general statement was ill-advised--the ultimate leakage of the story led to unnecessary publicity to names and facts--the judgment of the committee seems sober and correct...
...solicitation card there will be six recommended charities and additional space for the donors' own personal choices, Dorsen said. Each student may divide up his donation in any desired proportion. The Combined Charities Committee will then allocate the correct amount to each charity...
...enlarge this present strength, and to correct the serious deficiency in the fields of Government, Economics, and History, the University should make three new permanent appointments. Experts with tenure are the only effective means to guide research over a long period. A possible method would be to appoint new professors within the existing formula, which limits the number of permanent chairs in each department to a fixed number. But this solution is impracticable, because some departments do not expect vacancies for five or six years. It is also unreasonable to expect departments so divert these rare vacancies from more traditional...
Kemble also said he wished to correct any impression that since students here had not been directly asked to contribute, their gifts would not be welcome. He had avoided a student appeal, he added, because the committee felt that the job of raising money to defend Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, was primarily a faculty concern and that the drive should not receive too much publicity...
...seniors, supposedly friends and both candidates for the same medical school . . . were about to take an important examination in chemistry. One confessed to the other that, should a certain question be asked, he was unprepared to give the correct answer. His classmate proceeded to give him the wrong answer, although he knew the right one." The authors of Preparation for Medical Education admit that this is an unusual incident. But it does point up the intensity of the competition among pre-medical students...