Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought for retention of the system last year know how unpopular it is with many members of the Faculty and the Administration." He also predicted that the practical difficulties now standing in the way of tutorial would have considerably abated within two years. "Then a full scale effort should be made to restore tutorial throughout the College," he added...
Undergraduates of 1947 obviously fail to see the possibilities inherent in a more active Student Council. The vaunted local indifference has frozen out all chances of making the effort at revision a step in itself toward wider interest in Council affairs. Thus the Council for this year and for 1947-48 will make their marks without the greater undergraduate interest which the campaign for change hoped to arouse...
...happened to this distinctive feature of Harvard education and disheartened by the prospects for its revival. Tutorial has become an almost forgotten cause, with the administration, faculty, and Student Council tacitly permitting the entire situation to gather dust. As it exists today, tutorial bears little resemblance to the overall effort that marked prewar guidance. The only hope for it lies in active blueprinting by the faculty, careful planning for the days when tutors will again be on the academic market and when the only excuse for the death of tutorial will be financial strangulation or neglect on the part...
Freshmen still thumbing course catalogues in an effort to pick out an agreeable field of concentration and others who wish to dabble outside an already established major field will be briefed tonight from 8 to 8:15 o'clock by William C. Greene, professor in Greek and Latin, in the first of a series of Crimson Network broadcasts by department heads...
Since the progressive and anti militarist forces within this country would, in his view, be great enough to prevent a turn to a fascist dictator, the dominant capitalists would attempt to enforce a semi-war program in an effort to preserve their privileges, while assuring a moderate prosperity to the workers. This program would, when combined with a new type of imperialism allied to general reaction, lead to increased dangers of another war. To combat this danger Sternberg falls back on the progressives, urging them to expose this danger and to prepare an adequate foreign as well as domestic program...