Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given individual tutorial "as seems appropriate" for an hour a week. Juniors would also be required to write "at least one substantial essay." Seniors will write a thesis--"one of the most successful elements in our present educational practice." All junior and senior Honors candidates will take Tutorial for Credit as a fourth course...
...letter written in response to a CRIMSON editorial, Henry C. Hatfield, Chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, said that the Department was considering giving a half course for double credit which would, in other words, be a full course compressed into one semester...
When Gaillard, then Finance Minister, devalued the franc last summer, pressure eased. As Premier he courageously curbed credit and imports, decreased the subsidies that are the bane of the French economy. Understood in last week's aid agreement was his pledge to hold his tough line, keeping 1958's budget deficit to a "manageable" $1.4 billion, and the trade deficit around $400 million. By 1959 Gaillard expects the retooled economy to stand on its own with the world. Since last December it has been doing just that. Exports, including such invisible factors as tourism, exceeded imports...
...credit negotiators carefully avoided mention of the quickest way to cure France's money troubles: an end to the $4,000,000-a-day Algerian war. But while Monnet talked in Washington, Gaillard pulled through the French Parliament a measure which brightened hopes that some compromise, may yet be reached. After one fallen Premier and eight months of debate, both Houses gave final approval to a loi-cadre for Algeria setting up the framework of limited home rule by regional assemblies, and establishing voting equality for Moslem and French (TIME...
...Sicily, which encourages private enterprise (TIME, Dec. 9), Mattei got his comeuppance from private enterprisers. They had gathered to discuss the thriving new oil industry on the island, which had been started after Gulf brought in the first well. Mattei appeared at the meeting to try to grab some credit for what had happened. For an hour he decried private initiative, said that only his "army of technicians." which are "perhaps the best in the world." can properly serve the interests of Italians and Sicilians...