Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houses they tried to grab what education they could before turning 18. While the Yard was given over to the military, Kirkland and Eliot Houses became the headquaters for a new Navy program, V-12. The Army took over control of Leverett and Winthrop Houses, filling them with a counterpart to V-12, ASTP. Adams, Lowell, and Dunster remained the only civilian sanctuaries, but the latter could not survive past June of 1944 when the Army Air Force took over...
...contrast to her Harvard counterpart, the Radcliffe girl cannot wander out of her dorm when she feels like it. To stay out of the dorm later than 10 p.m., when the doors lock, the Cliffe-dweller must register in the sign-book for all to see. Unlike some women's colleges, at Radcliffe a girl does not have to sign the name of her date, but only her destination, with as little specificity as "Boston movies," "Square," or "Corner...
...however, to lend "symbolic support to Hungarian students' fight for academic freedom." The support will take the form of a letter to be sent today to the United States delegation at the United Nations, the New York Times, and the Hungarian Student Union. The latter is the powerful Hungarian counterpart of the National Student Association...
Stevenson's concern for dealing with the facts in internal matters has had its counterpart in his understanding of foreign affairs. His understanding of Asian neutralism, of Red China, of African independence, and of economic backwardness in these areas will result in policies attuned to a world in flux...
...things which most distinguishes the American university from its European counterpart is the prevailing custom of marriage in graduate school. Ever since World War II graduate schools have been teeming with married students. Whether this sociological change has resulted in a more stable and serene breed of student is unknown, but it has undoubtedly had something to do with a startling rise in the birth rate among the educated classes. Not to be surpassed by the Veteran's Villages of the state universities, Harvard has recently done its bit to foster the large cultivated family, and incidentally save America from...