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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the tutorial system languishes on its "firmer footing," the need for just this type of instruction reaches a new height. As 2500 undergraduate veterans prepare to take divisional and general examinations, they race the complete absence of refresher instruction which might bridge the gap between 1942's basic courses and 1946's advanced work. Individually, the departments of the College have shown no interest in preparing for these exams the veteran who is not an honors' candidates. If tutorial on the traditional plan is currently beyond the ken of the administration, the Houses may well step into the gap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revival Meeting | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

...leads a disciplined life and exercises a military discipline over others. He is even-tempered, courteous, gracious to the ladies. In the fieldstone house which he had the state build as the governor's summer mansion in Indiantown Gap, his polished boots and riding clothes are arranged in precise ranks. There his wife, Charity, has lovingly collected Pennsylvania Dutch antiques. One of the General's chief diversions is riding over the smoky Blue Mountains. He does not care so much for the old gloomy governor's house in Harrisburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unmistakable Republican | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Donnell, the Cantabs pulled off the neatly-blocked and neatly-faked off-center line smash that is one of Harlow's favorites. Moravec lunged toward the center of the line, then veered over the left guard hole as Coulson took out the backer-up who had been plugging the gap...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Victory Over Purple Eleven Strengthens Varsity Offense | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Only businessmen, hunters, prospectors and settlers could use it. But now it had gasoline stations (the longest gasless gap: 200 miles). Everyone hoped it would be open for tourist travel next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: The Big Road | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...diversified outlets for undergraduate interests. The creation of Student Council Interactivity Board or Committee, with powers, not only to promote interest among the students and faculty, but also to publicize club activities by periodic bulletins, greater coverage in the publications and on the bulletin boards might help fill the gap. Further, this group might coordinate club meetings and special events, to prevent time conflicts and present to the students a single source of information on club events. Most important, a group of this type would be alert to new suggestions for activities, sensitive to all possibilities of publicizing club affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Passive Activities | 10/10/1946 | See Source »

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