Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Education Committee has voted unanimously to accept for lower level General Education credit the biology course proposed by George Wald, professor of Biology. The decision marks the first time an introductory departmental course has been accepted for lower level credit...
...concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only a good civic ensemble, and hazy string entrances or out-of-tune winds naturally suffer in the face of such suavity. Nevertheless, Mr. Manusevitch is a fine musician, and his accompaniment was tasteful, and appropriately reserved...
First class of ten boys and twelve girls was chosen for brains and maturity rather than papa's ability to pay (five students have full scholarships). Half are high school seniors, will get full credit for the year. The rest are recent high school graduates, may get college credit. The curriculum: English composition, biology, social science, French, all used as practical tools. The biology course, for example, focuses on the world's food, health, and population problems. "We're not trying to make experts," says Jaeger. "There is nothing so obnoxious as a 17-year-old expert...
...that time the big seasonal demand will have ended too. Even more important, the Treasury is planning a sharp reduction in its issues in the first half of 1960, may thus help to ease credit or at least prevent it from becoming tighter. The Federal Reserve would like to keep its present discount rate of 4% in effect even after a settlement, looks for interest rates to stay steady. Bankers do not expect a hike in the prime rate of 5% for some time, think that if it comes at all, it will be small...
...TEEN-AGE CREDIT PLANS are being offered by 100 department stores, including Pittsburgh's Sears, Roebuck, Baltimore's Hochschild & Kohn. Accounts require parents' O.K. but are not guaranteed by them...