Word: foreign
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...freshmen decided by a class vote to support the foreign student as part of a nation-wide NSA project to bring DP's to colleges throughout the country. Each of the other three Radcliffe classes has a foster child in Europe at present, but the Class of '52 preferred the new idea of bringing a DP to Cambridge...
...view of increasing undergraduate demand for a junior year abroad, the College should now re-examine its policy on foreign study. At present, the only way anyone who has not received his Bachelor's Degree can study in a European school is to arrange a leave of absence for one year. Upon his return, he can petition for credit for work he has done, but there is no guarantee that he will receive it. Since few can afford to take the chance of wasting a full year, student are virtually forced to wait until after graduation, or to give...
Dean Bender has stated that the Administration hesitates to give credit for foreign study because there are no safeguards to insure that a man will take his work seriously. Many European universities have a loosely-knit system under which the student needs only to take a cursory examination at the end of the school year to receive full credit for courses he has hardly bothered to attend. The College, says the Dean, cannot take the chance that one of the four years spent in preparation for the degree will be wasted...
Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, who is backing the foreign-study movement before the faculty, explained it to the Council, emphasizing that the plan would not involve a sweeping depopulation of the House, but would be for a small group, with department consent...
Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince...