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Word: existing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best solution in the long run is to plant Harvard Club Schools Committees in these areas, or activate the ones which faintly exist. For only the alumni have the time and experience to guide prospects from inclination to active application. But until this happens, the undergraduates need help. Some can come from college placement officers in their old secondary schools, who usually regard the boys they place in Harvard as so many feathers in their bonnets. They would usually be willing, if asked to screen out the best prospects and lead the undergraduates to them. Secondly, there should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Town Boys | 12/13/1952 | See Source »

...interested in various American studies; what groupings did develop were far more a result of mutual interests that of nationality and did not "undermine" but benefited in that they helped greatly in the interchange of ideas and opinions. As for the specific faction referred to, it simply did not exist; there was no evidence at this summer's Seminar for the implication that a miniature Axis was formed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar | 12/13/1952 | See Source »

...target. Compared with last year's NATO force of 18 active divisions, this is an improvement; compared with the 100 divisions and 7,000 aircraft that Russia has available, it remains dangerously inadequate. More important, the roll call of Allied "reserves" is woefully short. Some 20 reserve divisions exist in embryo, but few would be ready for action within the 30-day mobilization period specified by NATO. Without more reserves, says NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, Europe lacks the minimum military requirement to "take and turn a Russian assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Disappointing Performance | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

There is but one group of students, in fact, a minority if they exist at all, who have no complaint coming. These are the undergraduates whose activity evokes what University Hall fears most--gross immorality, lurid beadlines, and the demise or desecration of the Good Name. The latest ordinance need not worry these people, for it is only the privilege itself, and not its extent, that concerns them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give and Taake | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

...reserve system Miss Porritt would let the books in demand go at 4:30, although they will remain on closed reserve during the day. If the books don't have to be handled twice to prepare the reserves, she believes, the problem of extra work will no longer exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increased Borrowing Snarls Radcliffe Library Facilities | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

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