Word: interests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...historical" size of a department as an operative concept is peculiar to Harvard. The nation's oldest institution of higher education does not wish to be over-influenced by trends, by changing emphasis and intensity of student interest...
...outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to administrative problems a precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough a program...
Several other student organizations, both religious and political, showed interest in joining his campaign yesterday, Wallach asserted. But the groups don't want to be named yet, he added...
...second floor, rooms are assigned to various language groups and each one is equipped with a small special library containing a selection of works of general interest written in the several languages represented. In addition, there are copies of the most representative texts at different levels for the study of those languages and their literatures in schools and colleges. On this floor are rooms devoted to French, German, Spanish, Slavic, and Italian. Besides books, they contain many foreign language newspapers...
...Living modestly by Washington standards, he had gone steadily into the red on the White House job. For the last 2½ years, a St. Louis friend whom Clifford describes only as "an older man of substantial means" has been helping him out. "He has sort of taken an interest in me since I started practice," said Clifford. "He felt that I was needed in Government and he told me that he would, as it were, subsidize me and to go ahead and draw on him for what I needed." Altogether Clifford was about $25,000 in debt...