Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council last night recommended to the Faculty that tutorial be made optional for non-honors juniors. The vote overruled the report of the Council's executive committee, which called for continued compulsory tutorial, but stopped short of CEP recommendations that it be eliminated altogether...
After approving changes in the executive committee report, the Council voted to ask the Faculty to delay action on curriculum revision, until the changes could be incorporated into a Council report to the faculty...
After heated and prolonged debate, Council members voted to recommend letter grading in all tutorial. The grade would be based on the tutor's evaluation of the student's work, and on a final essay graded by someone other than the tutor. The CEP has recommended grading and qualifying examinations at the end of the sophomore and junior years...
Hard-boiled Premier Khalil, who has fended off both Egyptian and Russian attempts to penetrate his new nation, tried in vain to telephone Nasser, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Cairo, and finally, after a Cabinet meeting lasting until 3 a.m., cabled an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council accusing Egypt of plotting "aggression" and of organizing a "huge infiltration of Egyptian troops" (disguised, according to Sudanese sources, as camel traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled...
SLUMP WILL END by fourth quarter of 1958, predicts Leon Keyserling, onetime chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. Keyserling expects economic activity for final quarter to run 3½% faster than 1957 pace, and this year's gross national product to hit $437.7 billion v. last year's $433.9 billion, with large gains in personal-consumption expenditures (up $3.6 billion) and U.S. Government buying (up $1.6 billion...