Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaints about the final examination system are frequent and loud, and the fact that nothing substantial has been done about it seems to indicate that no adequate substitute to fit the needs of Harvard College has been found. A few courses use term papers, but so few that they hardly presage any large-scale alteration in the system. The unchanging nature of examinations, though perhaps impressive in traditionalist argument, hardly answers the large number of intelligent charges made against them...
Speaking as "an academic irresponsible," the staff director of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs asserted that the United States "can build up the industrial might of Germany without antagonizing" the other nations of Europe. But this cannot be done "if Russia controls Germany...
...case the backbone of this year's Varsity should be jolly. Happily, it is not quite that. Red-headed Frank Gurley, the captain, can double effectively in the 1000 and two-mile relay. His 2:15 1000 at West Point earlier this month stands up against anything Yale has done in that event...
Once upon a time Charles O. Gorham was publicity chief of the biggest U.S. book publisher (Doubleday). Now he has set out to do for the publishing business what Frederic Wakeman has done for the "hucksters." The result is The Gilded Hearse, a novel which Doubleday is not publishing...
...done it again. For the third time this winter, Sam Felton has broken his own Briggs Cage 35-pound weight throw record. He did it Saturday in an informal meet with Boston University and Northeastern by lobbing the iron ball 57 feet, 11/2 inches. The world's record is 58 feet, 71/2 inches...