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Since the CRIMSON first planned to do this supplement in February, editors have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the South to gather first-hand information for it. We have not attempted to give here a comprehensive picture of the situation; we rather have tried to spotlight certain local developments and specific problems of the highly complex question of Negro education...
...beauties and perils of the Atlantic coast. For his Pulitzer Prizewinning Admiral of the Ocean Sea he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus, and during World War II (he retired from the Navy as a rear admiral) he collected seven battle stars while also collecting first-hand material for his monumental history of naval operations...
...management. He directed the railway's dieselization program, cut costs and built up the profit margin ($27 million in 1954) despite a drop in revenues. Buck Crump has traveled nearly every mile of C.P.R.'s far-flung system, often in the engineer's cab, has a first-hand knowledge of his company's multiple enterprises and is known by sight by nearly every one of his 87,000 employees...
...expressed purpose of this meeting to give interested students a first-hand view of the Council in order to stimulate informed criticism. As always, it was an opportunity for students to directly influence Council projects by their own participation in them...
While the above letter argues well for Sweet Briar's program, we have received complaints based on first-hand knowledge that participation in the group does negate many educational opportunities of study in France. Students who have returned report that they did have to take six weeks at Tours; but even are if Tours' and participation in Sweet Briar courses are not required, students still have to pay for them, and this fact alone indicates that well-prepared Harvard students must pay for services which they neither need nor want. As we stated, advice is needed, but we repeat...