Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calculus of all freshmen, is regarded as the toughest of the "New Curriculum." Professor Arnold B. Arons, who studied under Professor Leonard K. Nash in G.S.A.S. and advocates many of Conant's ideas, make his course purposely tough "to jolt the boys out of a rut and make them exert a real intellectual effort." Unlike Harvard's Natural Science courses, Arons' Science 1-2 and 3-4 serve as the basic courses for science majors as well as other liberal arts concentrators...
...biggest problem facing the American businessman today, alsop continued, is an adjustment to "a government which must exert great power over the business community. The average businessman," he stated, "is still living in the era of little government, believing himself controlled rightfully only by natural laws." This period of little government control ended with the great depression when the power of decision passed from business to government, Alsop said. But most of business has refused to live with the new "big government...
...basketball tradition behind the 1954 quintet just doesn't exert such an allure. No year stands out in most coaches' minds as the glorious "It" year. No silver cups line the shelves of Harvard players. And no one proudly dangles a gold ball from his key chain as a symbol of an undefeated or championship year...
...Yale's one-year program has so far turned out 28 teachers, was designed specifically as "a massive transfusion of the liberal arts" into teacher training. Says its director, Theodore Andersson: "Thanks to their steeping in the humanities, our teachers are expected to exert an impact on American education out of all proportion to their numbers...
...Caretaker. Last August Giuseppe Pella got power chiefly because he promised not to exert it. He is a Christian Democrat, and he served for five years in De Gasperi's government as the brilliantly successful keeper of the budget. But Giuseppe Pella had no political organization of his own, no party faction behind him. The party did not choose him to be Premier. It was not even consulted in advance. Pella's old friend and mentor, President Luigi Einaudi, tapped Pella because he merely wanted someone to govern as a caretaker while the Christian Democrats settled among themselves...