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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher and more attractive salaries for trained, essential, skilled personnel are expensive items to present to a budget-minded President. UMT, if it were as universal as the British system, would require all fit American males to perform their military obligation for some period immediately after graduation from high school and would also rely on an active reserve establishment designed to guarantee rapid mobilization of trained troops. The Cordiner report, of which some provisions have been adopted, envisioned greater reliance than is presently possible on a stable body of well-trained professionals. It advocated a salary and promotion system based...
Bill Richling followed shortly with a tip-in for a three point lead, 70 to 67, but Brandeis closed in on a lay-up by sophomore Larry McNulty, the game's high scorer with 31 points. The squads again traded baskets, and after George Harrington put the varsity ahead by three once more, McNulty matched Harrington's two free throws, thus narrowing the margin to one with a minute and a half left...
Nevertheless, she became restless and bored. Though her formal education had stopped after a year of high school, Gertrude Stein decided she was going to Harvard. Latin was required for entry, and Gertrude knew only German and French. The stories of how this titanic young woman came to be admitted do not agree. In any case, Radcliffe accepted her and she went to live in a Cambridge boarding house, which she described as "interesting and knowing a lot who I had never seen before...
Four Harvard professors are currently participating in a program sponsored by the Educational Services, Inc. to develop a modernized high school physics course, which Burce F. Kingsbury, Assistant Director of the program, believes "has already caused a major upheaval in the two short years since its inception...
Fred L. Glimp '50, Director of Freshman Scholarships, asserted that a high score on the College Boards is only a prerequisite for admissions, not a deciding factor. "We do not necessarily assume that a very high score automatically means a very good candidate," he said. "There are many other factors...