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Word: justly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The deliberate "C-men," for whom President Lowell had always felt particular antipathy, were at last becoming a minority group. Partly by his own example of industry, Lowell had instilled in faculty and students alike a distaste for complacency and intellectual lethargy. The tutor system too had a new premium...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Lowell's Regime Introduced Concentration and House System | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

Concrete results of the change became increasingly apparent as the years went on. Throughout the twenties and early thirties, the number of students in Honors increased every year until in 1934, the Honors percentage of the graduating class was just about twice that of the Class of 1915. The number...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Lowell's Regime Introduced Concentration and House System | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

Lowell's last innovation was the Society of Fellows, finally established just before he resigned in 1932-33. Ostensibly the Society was different from his earlier projects because it involved only a small and academically exclusive group instead of all the undergraduates or all the faculties. But fundamentally, it was...

Author: By Penelope C. Kline, | Title: Lowell's Regime Introduced Concentration and House System | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

Discipline. To see what could be done, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns journeyed to Hong Kong fortnight ago. Said Kearns to a meeting of Hong Kong garment leaders for the second time in a year: "Don't reduce your exports. Just don't ship unduly heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Invasion from Hong Kong | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Director Truffaut, who also wrote the script with Marcel Moussy, tells a story that derives from his own childhood experiences in a reform school. His hero is a French schoolboy (Jean-Pierre Léaud), about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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