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To avoid too-narrow limits, students would be able to choose their courses from an approved list of nearly 30 offerings. The only really restrictive ruling would require that after the fall of 1951 three of the required six courses must come from the elementary GE list--which even now...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

An eight foot rubber balloon and a $50 check, not quite so elastic, will change hands this morning at 9:30 a.m. in the premises of a local Boylston Street delicatessen.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wursthaus Pays $50, Gets Back One Balloon | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

The Elastic Soil. Real scientists take a dim view of Road to Survival. Here & there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many. From the verbiage of Vogt and his fellows, three central ideas about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eat Hearty | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Double Dose. "You have a chance," he cried, "to help decide whether or not Harry Truman is going to be the future President of the United States. He is a man totally unfitted for the position. His principles are elastic and he is careless with the truth. He has no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Faithful | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Inter-school athletic programs failed to get a nod from the body. Since some graduate schools have no teams to field in any sport, the Joint Student Association felt it would be better to keep intra-University athletics on an informal, elastic level.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intra-University Committee Plans Information Leaflet | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

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