Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally offered ten years ago by the English Department, the course was later relocated in the General Education field as an upper level Humanities course. It was presented in an effort to attract the non-concentrator as well as the English major...
Pete Zemo, who competed only on the interhouse level last year, made an impressive showing in his first varsity performance, winning the 50-yard freestyle...
...Defense Department is getting ready to launch a new organization-Advanced Research Projects Agency-to be headed by a civilian with top-level executive capacity, a scientific background and a strong bridge to the scientific community. ARPA will take responsibility for the study and development of antimissile missiles, the weapons possibilities of satellites, all other novel weapons systems. ARPA's responsibility will extend only over development; once weapons reach operational stage, the services will take over...
...Though the level of secondary school mathematics and science is high, teaching in general is unimaginative and suffocating. "The accounts of many German students who studied in the Soviet Union after the war agree in stating that, in a typical class lesson, the teacher would start the class by calling on two or three students to repeat the material of the previous lesson almost verbatim, and that the second half of the hour would be occupied by the teacher delivering the next section of the textbook, again following the text almost or actually verbatim...
...LIGHT FOR FOOLS, by Natalia Ginzburg. A brief, near-poetic story of ordinary lives mired in the despair of Mussolini's Italy. Conceived in sympathy and written at the level of simple truth, it is one of the best Italian novels in years...