Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...higher education, too, the picture is grim. In 1946, President Truman appointed a commission of educators and public figures to investigate the college scene. The commission reported a year later, and recommended a whopping program of federal aid to colleges. Unless this were done, the commission warned, higher education would continue to bobble the vital job of supplying America with enough highly-trained and intellectually broadened citizens. The Commission claimed that about half of the population can profit by two years of college, and therefore 14 years of education should be free to all. The total enrollment in higher education...
Counting of the ballots will be done on a straight numerical basis, Houghton stated, with the three top vote getters being named First, Second, and Third Marshals respectively. The next nine will receive positions on the Permanent Class Committee...
...largely a deadly monotonous routine," commented Pratt, "and a bang up job was done by the office staff in keeping the records straight...
...rate, something ought to be done about the present lack of emphasis on speech at Harvard. Budding young lawyers, or businessmen, or chairmen of corporation boards will all have to express their ideas vocally as well as in letters. True enough, most Harvard men learn how to talk reasonably clearly simply by practicing all the time. But there is enough of a demand for more formal training to indicate that the University should consider a re-evaluation of the importance of speech in its curriculum...
...yard medley relay, Brown was clocked in 3:03 to nip Army. The Crimson has done about the same, Ulen said...