Word: holding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside professional activity of most of the Faculty members. Dean Sert himself sets the example with his own busy private practice and extensive participation in Cambridge and University affairs. The result is the antithesis of a picture of academic sterility. One student remarked, "I can never get hold of my adviser because he is off on the job somewhere...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club will hold its first annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner Monday, April 27, at 7 p.m. Paul Butler, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will deliver the main address at the banquet in the ballroom of the Commander Hotel...
...eight Ivy League football coaches will hold their annual meeting Monday and Tuesday, April 27 and 28, at Harvard for the first time since the formation of the League...
Mrs.Pratt and the admissions committee feel that statistics here would be "meaningless" considering the college's emphasis on a girl's background, record, recommendations and some "intuitive" feeling they might hold about a girl's chance for academic success...
...final analysis, it seems Harvard must face the facts: Girls do hold a slight edge in areas such as grades and the percentage of Honors degrees conferred. But the differential cannot be explained solely by any difference in sheer intellectual power, as the Cliffies claim. More than anything, their conscientiousness in the mechanical aspects of a course accounts for their favorable results...