Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highlight of Saturday will be the annual dinner in the Hotel Astor. Governor Leverett P. Saltonstall '14 of Massachusetts, Mayor LaGuardia, and President Conant will speak. The dinner will be preceded by six special luncheons that afternoon at which specific academic problems will be discussed...
Talks by Dean Chase, the Chairman of the Harvard Radio Committee, and by Loring Andrews, Program Director of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, will highlight the first program. Immediately following will be "Jazz Lab," a program treating the developments of types of jazz from its beginnings to modern swing. This program will run until 7:45 o'clock...
...Last week the spotlight was held by President Hutchins of the University of Chicago, who suggested that the A.B. degree be awarded after the first two years of college, so that those students who wish to study in earnest may specialize during the remaining two years. This week's highlight is the news from the convention of the American Association of Junior Colleges, where one of its speakers, Dr. James M. Wood, proposed that universities release their sophomore and freshman classes to the junior colleges, as the universities are not equipped to offer adequate training to these undergraduates. Both plans...
Sixteen famed Wellesley girls will highlight the annual Water Carnival in the Harvard pool tonight at 8:15 o'clock with an unusual display of rhythmic swimming, waltzing, water stunts, and formations...
...Highlight for Harvard men at the Garden will be the invitation mile relay run against Yale. Although Eli has not been too strong in this foursome, Coach Jaakko Mikkola refuses to underrate their strength. Maddon, the Blue anchorman, is a steady runner; he clipped off a 50 flat in the Millrose meet. There is always the possibility, even a probability in this case, that Yale has a new man or two up in its bag of tricks...