Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty committee conducted its hearings for almost two months and at the conclusion in December of 1948 it recommended that of the six men only Gundlach be dismissed. The report was given to President Allen on January 7 and to the Regents the next day. On January 17, Allen submitted an analysis of the Committee's report and recommended that three men be fired. The Board of Regents finally changed all but one of the committee's findings. This was almost without precedent, the faculty committee's recommendation being considered final...
...Department has not set up a program of lectures to the teaching follows but has given them one lecture, other instruction in methods of teaching being left to the discretion of individual professors with whom the teaching fellows work...
Vandenberg's selection is the second time that a Harvard group has singled him out for party honors. In May of last year he was given the GOP presidential "nomination" at a mock Republican convention...
Natural Sciences 4, inaugurated last year, was limited to freshman and sophomores this year. It deals historically with case-histories in chemistry, physics, geometry and astrology. Extra lectures in the Theory of Relativity, the Quantum Theory, and Atomic Physics were given in the course occasionally...
Consequently, his course in Russian Revolutionary Thought is given in the afternoon. He says the course has been handicapped by the absence of English translations of important writings by nineteenth century revolutionists. "It's as if you tried to understand French Revolution knowing Diderot was in favor of science, Rousseau rather enthusiastic, Voltaire disliked Church--but all in Chinese, so can't bother with them...