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Aided by a staff of students, registration director Leonard has been preparing for today since last Friday, when he and his cohorts began filling the envelopes which are the focal point of today's tussle. About 12 men helped him on Friday, but on Tuesday, when he comes face to face with returned study cards the kickback from the activity of today, tomorrow and Monday, all of which must be sorted, checked and made into course lists before Wednesday morning, he expects to have at least 35 helpers...
...years "The Colonel" held the position in which he was best known, Chief Yard cop. His cry of "Break it up" as he headed for the focal point of any riot or disturbance became famous in the annals of the College...
...emphasis on the danger to tutor- ial the Council said that the tutorial system was "a symbol, and at Harvard at least, the focal point, of a liberal education," the long-run social values of which should not be dismissed "as nonessentials and luxuries, to be dispensed with in an emergency...
...eight-page report was no all-inclusive summary of the detailed Departmental investigations, but it clearly pointed up the important issues. It could claim, too, to be representative of the student body as a whole when it called tutorial "the focal point of a liberal education," and when it warned that "in the mind of most undergraduates, Harvard would not be the same place without tutorial, in spite of its defects and its present state of flux." The same section fired a broadside at those who, to make room for immediate and useful technical training, would squeeze out the teaching...
...area within the Caribbean ring but of the Latin-American approaches beyond it, the approaches from Africa and Europe as well. That is why Army and Naval officers in the Canal Zone impatiently dismiss queries and quibbles about the Canal's local defenses. The Canal is still a focal point of the Caribbean defense system. But the Canal's defense today is just as good as and no better than the defenses of Trinidad, Puerto Rico and the other outlying U.S. bases...