Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the decision to permit qualified students to earn a Bachelor of Science degree, after completing the degree in Arts, by taking additional work in the Division of Applied Sciences, "a second noteworthy action." And he lauded the Design School's "increased emphasis in a new curriculum on history, aesthetics, the theory of architecture, composition and freehand drawing...
...between the man with four varsity letters in minor sports and the man with four jayvee letters," said Frank H. White '55, president of the Athletic Council, in explaining the slight modifications. "The recommendation as submitted to us would have allowed a man with nothing but jayvee letters to earn a varsity H, since jayvee letters are counted as minor letters. We feel that only a man who makes a varsity team should be awarded a major...
Referring to the recommendation concerning managers, White said, "We agreed wholeheartedly that a manager who has earned letters in three minor sports should be awarded a major H. A manager works hard, often serving as an apprentice for a year before he gets a chance to earn his letter. The manager who earns three minor sport letters works just as hard, if not harder, than the manager in a major sport, and we feel that he should get equal recognition...
...Many of these market-tested, selfhelp, how-to-do-it, picture, memoir, fad and stunt books are written by clergymen, dietitians, gardeners, gourmets, radio comedians, diplomats, psychoanalysts, and almost anyone but writers. The amateurs, of course, are provided with outlines, editors and, in many cases, ghosts (a ghost may earn from $1,000 to $5,000 a book, in addition to a whack of the royalties, and a particularly expert shade may even materialize in his own right on the title page). Many writers, submitting to the trend, have become what might be called visible ghosts-they spend increasingly more...
...Dudley's students are helped by small University scholarships. Some of these men also work, bringing the total number of commuters who have part time jobs to somewhat over a third. "The trouble with commuting," one student said, "is the time I spend traveling makes it impossible to earn the cash I need to live in a house." For this dilemma their i8s apparently no answer--outside of a large loan or scholarship--except the sacrifice of studying and extra-curricular activities...