Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, that it be voluntary, graded and for credit--in the form, probably, of a half-course running through two terms...
Last year Monro suggested that the Departments alone establish voluntary non-Honors tutorials, in the form of half-courses for credit. But this plan, while simple, left the Houses completely out of the program, and, said Monro, some of the Masters registered "vigorous objection, which began my education as the new Dean...
...replace it, a new version was being lettered: "Trumped up stories of 'ritual murders' of Christian boys by Jewish communities were common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and even much later. These fictions cost many innocent Jews their lives. [They] do not redound to the credit of Christendom, and we pray, 'Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers...
...Villain: Congress. Banker Alexander agrees with the general view that part of money's tightness-and the highest interest rates (5% and up) in 28 years-is the result of demand for credit spawned by the strong upsurge of the new boom. But it is also the result of fumbled fiscal policy. Who is to blame for that? Says Alexander: "The Administration's policy is good, and the Treasury is doing all it can.'' The real villain, he says, is Congress. It has refused to raise the 47% ceiling rate on long-term Treasury bonds, thus...
...holiday financing steps up and the steel strike ends. But, he says hopefully, "there is a good likelihood that the worst pressure on rates is past. A sustained strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says he: "If we are to preserve our free economy, that...