Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some cases the Faculty will establish Committees to study and report on some particular topic. In the past these subjects of investigation have included Tenure, Tutorial, Educational Standards, and the like. Such committees have recently been extraordinarily active, for the impact of war on Harvard has made the problems in every field immensely more complex...
Other Council reports in the past decade have dealt with the overcrowding in the Houses; the Faculty tenure system and its impact on undergraduate instruction; and the relation between intramural and minor sports in the College athletic program...
...would be trite to say that a course of study must be planned in the light of the war. No college has been able to avoid the war's impact. But it is not yet trite to point out that planning such a course of study does not mean choosing only courses in math and physics, with perhaps a little military Japanese thrown in. Liberal education has the special virtue of flexibility and breadth sufficient to cope with abnormal situations. It changes gradually, as the main lines of thought shift from age to age, but it is adaptable...
Promises that the British Government would heed the voice of its people-and of the Russians-had been piling up for weeks past. But, wrapped in the rhetoric of Winston Churchill and the cautious legal phrases of Sir Stafford Cripps, they had somehow lacked the impact of a pledge. Last week the assurance came, not flat, not unequivocal, but clear...
...aircraft industry's first women guards patrol the production lines, Fairchild puts the almost paper-thin veneers under heat and pressure in steel cylinders. Baked and pressed into shape, they are free of the rivet-bumps on aluminum alloy planes, do not wrinkle, as metal does, under the impact of gusts...