Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the last few weeks, a cloud of post-war penury has filled the University's financial skies. Although this gloom seems to be a necessary evil, the Harvardman's pinched purse has already caused him to take another look at the value of the departmental advising system. The General Education Report has recognized the weaknesses as well as the potentialities of a function loosely designed as the left arm of tutorial, but most of its pregnant recommendations for worthwhile advising have fallen still-born. While the problem has always been an especially difficult one, the present inadequacy of many...
...responsibility of the various departments is clear enough. The whole system of advising must be brought into line with the new flourishing General Education program. This means more carefully selected advisors, more frequent required conferences with advisees, together with a closer departmental check on the entire program. There can be no place for inefficiency. A Harvard education, dollars-and-conts wise, is more dearly bought today than every before. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences cannot afford to let a loosely-run advisory program cost the undergraduate a substantial share of his education as well...
Social climbing is something the doctors specifically warn against: "We have been able to show that among patients with chronic disease in general, with duodenal ulcers and with thyroid disorders there is an unusual number of social climbers and strainers, that is, persons who want to improve their social status...
Having failed to cripple the exchanges, Keefe threatened a "general strike" of all the brokerage houses in the Street. By week's end he surprised three houses, Shields & Co., E. F. Button & Co. and Bache & Co., by calling strikes and picketing them. Two of them hadn't even suspected that they had any unionists on their staffs. Actually, they had only a few. At Hutton, only 18 of 325 employees walked out. It looked as if Dave Keefe faced a long and probably a losing fight. Said Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "We are prepared to function indefinitely...
...makeup and general appearance of the magazine have been improved, and Mary Harrell's two drawings on the inside pages are simple and pleasant. Once again the cover, by Burt Glinn, is most attractive. It shows a handsome Radcliffe girl sitting on some steps eating an ice-cream cone. Wonder if she's going to read the issue...