Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if one admits that a good tutorial program is an essential part of effective undergraduate education, and agrees that such a program does not exist, resolution of the problem is extremely difficult. One immediate response is that if departments are prepared to offer tutorial, conferences, seminars, and close contact with professors to GSAS students, they should be prepared to do so for undergraduates, who pay more and are, according to its president, "the heart of the University." But this does not make available either time or money...
...young. Examples: Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes (1858); the three children at famed Fatima, Portugal (1917); St. Catherine Labouré (1830), who heard the rustle of silk one night and received instructions from Mary herself about the miraculous medal that is now worn by hundreds of thousands. Stigmatists exist today who, like the first of them, St. Francis of Assisi, exhibit the wounds of Christ's crucifixion...
...young Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, teach him that this is the best of all possible worlds. Chanting his faith, he and his tutor and his sweetheart Cunegonde are catapulted from one misfortune to the next, witnessing or enduring in 20 pages more crime, misery and calamity than exist in all Greek tragedy; in fact, Candide himself, "the mildest man in the world," is constantly killing people. At long last he is led from idealism to the commonsense of keeping strictly to his own concerns, of cultivating his garden...
...starts off this way: "The principle purposes of the Corporation shall be to own and to operate facilities in the city of Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in order to broadcast by radio, TV, or by any other mode of communication, which now or in the future may exist, musical, cultural, educational, informational, and other programs and materials for the entertainment and profit of the public, and for the education and training of its staff...
...itself, the revised statement would seem to indicate that WHRB has completely separated itself from Harvard. At present, however, all the members of the station are keenly aware that they are a Harvard station, and they want to keep it that way. Whether this same feeling will exist after lengthy exposure to the Greater Boston FM listeners remains to be seen. It should be an interesting wait