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...report states that "the organization of sophomore tutorial on a residential basis is particularly important, not only to counteract the complaints of students from the teaching staffs in the large fields of concentration, but also as a means of developing further the Houses as centers of the intellectual life of undergraduates...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Faculty Group Approves Plan Giving Tutorial to All Sophomores, Juniors | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

...defend the status quo," argument eight says, "why should we not oppose Communism in the only effective way--by adopting policies that will win the masses away from Communism?" This is a tidy solution as far as it goes; economic aid, food baskets, and an anti-colonial stand can counteract Communism's social doctrine, but not its tanks and rifles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scarecrow Massacre | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...spiked shoes and indicated that he was ready to play. But Savitt, who refuses to wear spikes, testily told Referee Frank Piper: "I forfeit in singles and doubles." Savitt figured that McGregor might have an unfair advantage; he somehow failed to figure that he was doing nothing to counteract the recent charge made in Manhattan by Davis Cup Captain Frank Shields that Savitt had been no "credit either as a player or a representative of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comeuppance Down Under | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Senator Joe McCarthy. Wisconsin is as ticklish a problem for Ike as Oregon is for Taft. Reports TIME'S correspondent in Madison: "Some Republicans say Eisenhower would be foolish to make a late entry and risk a bad showing, but a dramatic late entry by Eisenhower might counteract all the work done up to that time by Taft supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHERE THEY STAND: A TAFT-IKE COUNT | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

This week, many of the Navajos who had ridden on the bus were quietly going through cleansing rites with medicine men to counteract the influence of the chindi. "Washin-tone"-and all white officialdom -seemed more remote and unfriendly than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: The Dead Baby | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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