Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counting on colleges to maintain normal operations, and to make no academic exceptions for students because of higher draft calls. Admittedly, the University should not keep a student whose performance has been unsatisfactory simply to save him from the Army. But neither should it place an undergraduate who has fallen below normal academic levels and left Harvard in an impossible situation if he wants to return...
...education that they discourage a sense of curiosity about knowledge. Everyone jokes about pupils who fall in love with their teachers; but, to Eble, "it is no joke-it is the way of learning. That is the advantage of live teachers and live books. They can be fallen in love with, possessed...
Boots to Last. Less esoteric but equally important problems have fallen to the center's scientific attack. When it was found that Thai soldiers were wearing through their U.S.-made boots within six months, scientists made a survey of Thai foot shapes, found them to be substantially different from the G.I. foot, then used special lasts for the production of Thai boots, which are expected to wear twice as long. For field troops plagued by the leeches in warm Thai streams, the center produced a repellent with a lanolin base that neither perspiration nor river water will wash away...
...World Bank and its offshoots, the easy-loan International Development Association and the private enterprise-oriented International Finance Corp., have made a grand total of $11 billion in loans in 20 years. The needs are growing and the resources diminishing. The growth rate of the underdeveloped countries has already fallen from 5% a year in the last decade to 4% now. Tight money, high interest rates, inflation and payments deficits make it harder for the rich countries to lend to the poor...
They've been letting Cliffies into Lamont for close to two weeks now and lo! the hallowed walls have not fallen. In fact, the short tenure of emergency coeducation in Lamont has accomplished what years of verbiage could not -- proven, once and for all, that people can study for Harvard degrees in a heterosexual library...