Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...
...Department, neatly avoid the problem by handing newcomers a placement test, repeated every term, and allocating students to classes of varying difficulty on the basis of their sources. The result is that these students move just as fast as their abilities permit. An identical system would go far to help English A. If a placement test were substituted for the Anticipatory--perhaps something along the lines of the late-lamented College Board Achievement Tests in English--it could split the course into far more interesting and efficient sections of comparable skill...
...Committee on Loans and Scholarships yesterday considered applications for loans and grants from the Beneficiary Aid Fund to help students with their December bills. The results of the Committee's action will be mailed to successful applicants within the next few days...
...what a D'Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...
Seven of the eight Ivy League colleges are represented on the team selected yesterday by the Associated Press with the help of the Ivy coaches. Cornell, League champion, places two men, as do Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton supply one man each, while Brown is unrepresented...