Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's series of career talks represents a significant departure from the programs of previous years. Thomas J. Crooks, director of Student Placement, decided that individual talks would stimulate more interest in the careers program than the panel discussions which had been used in the past...
Meanwhile, moderator Henry Kucera, assistant professor of Russian, got in a plug for the faculty-sponsored "Discussions '59," of which this was an unintended enlargement. Originally, the meeting was to be an informal lounge chat. When it became a public forum, John J. McLaughry, appointed head football coach only weeks ago, decided that the issue had lost its original humor and announced that he would be out of town tonight...
...University "seems to get what it wants," said James M. Jacobs, president of J. August. Terming the University's offer to pay a million dollars over the market value "fantastic," Jacobs added that the University is bending over backwards to make itself pure in this matter...
...opposing view was stated by Alice J. Hendrickson '60. Noting that small classes have the "obvious advantages of closer student-faculty contact and opportunity for student self-expression," Miss Hendrickson pointed out that controlled discussions often provided valuable educational experience...
...newly formed Veritas Foundation has sent 15,000 letters to selected alumni, asking financial support to combat "Harvard's trend to the left." Three New York members of the former Veritas Committee, which opposed the 1957 appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer as William James Lecturer, are trustees of the Foundation...