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...sharp contrast to the last stadium contest, the field should be dry and the weather clear. A crowd of 35,000, the largest of the year, is expected to watch the varsity endeavor to maintain its threat for first place honors. To do so, Harvard must stop or outscore the Tigers, and the first alternative is most unlikely...
...Although we don't claim to treat them," Dr. Slack stated, "we get better results than we would by using conventional methods." The project is not set up as a social service agency. Rather, it is a scientific endeavor, aimed at discovering reasons for juvenile delinquency. Research and treatment complement each other; Dr. Slack said, "The kids treat themselves by discussion, and reviewing their own material work...
...education generally is an insult. Finally, of course, the provisions of the disclaimer section of the Act will not be any way effective in discovering who is disloyal to our country. For these reasons Antoich ... has elected not to participate at present.... For the time being we will endeavor to meet our student's loan needs through our own loan funds; but should this need increase sharply, we will not be able to meet it. We sincerely hope, therefore, that the protests of such organizations as the AAC and the AAUP and the complaints of most of the presidents...
...Newton High School system of lectures and seminars has its parallel at the grade school level in the "Team-School in Lexington. This endeavor represents the third SUPRAD objective, finding means of attracting and holding highly qualified persons in both teaching and administrative positions...
...people, I suspect, would maintain that their ability to write English correctly and effectively could not be improved. No matter what one's channels of endeavor. one should try to write his own language as well as possible. Punctuation is probably the aspect to which the least attention is paid these days: yet it is an essential, and no mere refinement...