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...hasten acclimatization of the 500 Freshman who will enter the Houses in June, Hanford has proposed that the regular teaching staff of the House be utilized to serve as Freshman advisers. In addition to those would be added as many as needed instructors from elementary courses...
...teachers. The department's staff members are constantly called to defense conferences in Washington and highly trained graduate field men leave continually to work on strategic mineral supplies. Research for strategic metals in Bolivia has been speeded up and a staff man will go there in May to hasten the work...
...want to dwell on the abusive and ironic tone, the satire and the insinuations used in that unfortunate article (TIME, Feb. 16), but I hasten to point out to you that it will have a disastrous effect here and in Egypt. It gives a false impression to the American people about a friendly nation who love and admire the United States and think of it as a land of the free where the small fellow has an equal chance, and it insults a friendly people and hurts their pride. As to the first part of the article...
...their prospectus seems to neglect the all-important fundamental of how they plan to cram seventeen weeks worth of knowledge into the heads of their students in twelve weeks. In the stuffy heat of a Cambridge summer between June 29 and September 19 any undergraduates who wish to hasten their graduation will attend two lectures a day five times a week. For his work in this period a student will receive the same credit as he would in the seventeen weeks of the fall and spring terms attending at least the same number of, classes a week. Apparently the summer...
...wrong impression to the public, not as to the necessity of a navy, but as to the accomplishment of enterprises beyond its sphere. Neither now nor in the future will international conflicts be determined by naval engagements. In some instances naval victories may produce conditions that will tend to hasten the conclusion of a war, but ... to affect, to cripple or destroy a nation in wartime can only be done by injuring to that degree its power of government, its resources and its ability to defend itself against the enforcement of hostile demands." In short, to defeat the U.S., Japan...