Word: credited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delwood was content. "Three courses plus Government 98, Tutorial for Credit, that might be considered enough, but according to Rules Relating to College Studies, I am entitled to another course. Therefore, I shall take it. Right?" The cork wall had no opinion. "Culture, I must have culture, can't go through Harvard without culture--the arts, literature. First, the arts--Fine Arts 13." He turned back to the catalogue, page 150, and jotted down, FA 13, MWF at 12. "Fine, just fine...
...even more heroic rescue was required in 1 958 for France. Weakened by the wars in Algeria and Viet Nam and poor fiscal management, France was close to financial collapse when Jacobsson hustled to the rescue. He arranged a package of $655 million in credit from the Fund, the European Payments Union and the U.S. With the loan went some detailed recommendations on how France could put its fiscal house in order. It did so well that after De Gaulle came to power he was able to devalue and stabilize the franc. At other times, Jacobsson rescued the Danes, Dutch...
...semblance of order amidst the welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space for the workshops, of locating all problems of detail and trying to get them squared away, of doing some preliminary work in approaching students, of being a communications center...
...funds assured, discussions about the freshman year took on a new importance and urgency. They did not however, take on a noticeably new clarity. Administrative responsibilities were assigned to the Faculty Committee on Advanced Standing; and the full Faculty, at a meeting last May 19, voted to "authorize course credit for special supervised study by Freshmen...in order to permit, under the direction of this Committee, experiments designed to intensify the intellectual experience of the freshman year." Apparently little effort was made to define further the nature of these "experiments." Doubtless one reason for this was that most professors...
...first Shakespearean assignment, director Jose Quintero made some miscalculations; but some of his staging was ingenious and effective, such as the scenes involving the spine-chilling trio of Weird Sisters. The show was visually gripping; and much of the credit must go to the lighting of David Hays '52, which was as inspired as I have seen in a long time...