Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile the ducks were nosing the foreign straw object with curiosity, while a collie dog ran up and down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...
...Four or more years of foreign language study. (It is highly desirable to carry at least one language to the point of reasonable mastery, which means normally through four years of secondary school; two years each of two languages is usually unsatisfactory, since rarely can the student use the language after only two years of study...
There is, at present, a certain amount of pressure from the faculty to raise standards of preparation in mathematics and foreign languages and thereby eliminate a certain amount of elementary instruction in the first years of college. But Harvard would probably continue to take boys with relatively poor high school backgrounds. Saving the reasons for the "risk" in admissions until later, it is interesting to observe how successfully the College has managed to assimilate the Westerner with algebra and plane geometry on his record without slowing up the Exonian who has had a year of advanced calculus. Most...
Herter leaves Monday for Paris to take part in a free world foreign ministers' conference in preparation for East-West talks on the touch-and-go German situation...
Smith commented that students, both at Harvard and at other colleges, are seeking a man who can lead the United States with "ideas and not slogans, decisions and not doubt." He praised Humphrey's "vigorous approach to both foreign and domestic policies," saying it was welcomed by young men and women in a society "weakened by seven years of inadequate government...