Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waterloo, seated on his great white horse, General Cambronne watched the tide of battle. When the elite of the French army, the Old Guard, smashed itself on British bayonets and was routed; when Napoleon exclaimed, "All is lost!" and fled; and finally, when Blücher's Prussians [supposedly immobilized] appeared on the field of battle-then it was that Cambronne uttered the word...
...Congress. A Princeton man ('13), a major of infantry and winner of the D.S.C. in World War I, he has spent most of his 17 years in Congress on military committees. He is now chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Nevertheless, last week he flunked an Army General Classification Test for enlisted...
...Require all organizations which the Attorney General had determined were Communist or Communist fronts to register, report their finances, the names and addresses of their leaders and, in the case of Communist organizations, supply complete membership lists. (Maximum penalty for noncompliance: $5,000 fine and five years in prison...
...same time the College must be awake to the possibilities of new methods of instruction. Some courses, especially in General Education, have already experimented with the use of papers instead of examinations, and more can be done in this area. In any case, examinations should be brought nearer to the ideal of educational usefulness by more careful marking and return of the papers to the students...
...That concern could be shown at once by the appointment of a body to investigate the education offered the individual at Harvard. $60,000 spent by a Committee on the relation of Harvard and the student would certainly produce results as interesting and as significant as those of the General Education Committee. Such a group would at all events help to create a thesis or an ideal at which the College could aim. It might also, in the long run, create a more positive education than that which Henry Adams so clearly described, an education which would leave the mind...