Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the many scholars and teachers who hold permanent faculty appointments in the University, five hold a position which represents one of the highest academic distinctions attainable in this country. They are all University Professors--men free to investigate and to participate in any phase of Harvard's intellectual life, unrestrained by the usual departmental bound-aries...
This satellite observation program forms the first effective use of the recent moving of the Smithsonian to Cambridge, where it can work jointly with Harvard. Fred L. Whipple and J. Allen Hynek, the two men ultimately responsible for the tracking program, hold joint appointments. Whipple, the Director of the Smithsonian, is Professor of Astronomy, while Hynek, the Associate Director in charge of the tracking program, is Visiting Professor of Astronomy. This is the sort of cooperation envisioned when, in May 1955, it was announced that the Smithsonian was moving its headquarters to Cambridge.Special MOONWATCH telescope provides a 12 1/2 degree...
However, the two freshmen who set up or scored the goals against the Crimson last year are not on the P.C. varsity this season so the 1955 comparison may not hold tonight...
...sure, various departments hold a meeting to inform tutors what forms must be filled out and in what number, but large numbers of graduate students have little knowledge of the broad concepts behind tutorial, how they work in practice, or what techniques are effective. They are thus left in a position of finding out by trial and error, or, as is more likely, not finding...
...recent months a "strongman," Lt. Col. Abdel Saraj, has seized an unofficial but practical hold on Syrian affairs. Saraj, who is reputed to be strongly pro-Communist, is above all an Arab nationalist, and considers Nassar as the "Arab Attaturk" who will lead the Arab world to a glorious unification. As a result of this willingness to follow Nassar, Syria, in October of this year, joined with Egypt and Jordan in putting its army under joint Egyptian control in case...