Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory, satellite policymaking is done by the high-level National Aeronautics and Space Council, chaired by President Eisenhower. But NASC is a committee, with all a committee's shortcomings; so far it has met a total of only three times. Wrote New York Times Military Columnist Hanson W. Baldwin last week: "There are any number of men [in Washington] who can say no to suggested space projects. There are very few men who can or will...
Elliott stated that the Summer School will maintain last year's level of instruction, which was "uniformly very satisfactory and in many cases of unusual distinction." He added that this summer's faculty would meet "the one basic test for the quality of the Summer School faculty--the combination of distinguished scholarship with teaching ability...
Because Humanities 2 is to be bracketed, the Committee on General Education is sponsoring a new lower-level Humanities course, as yet unnamed, based on "dramatic literature." William Alfred, assistant professor of English, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin, will lecture. The new course, not intended to replace Humanities 2, may be given in alternate years...
This would leave Class elections in the area to which, under the ever-growing House system, they rightfully belong. On the House level, students can select a representative with a much clearer knowledge of whom they are voting for than will ever again be possible at the Class-wide level. Since the actual responsibility of the Marshals is quite small, and since the House system has changed the make-up of the "old Harvard" to a very considerable degree, it would seem best to remove the anachronism of Class Marshals in favor of a purely House-elected body...
There is no easy settlement for any of these squabbles; there are only a number of well-worn cliches which could be applied to the various contending parties. Taken in the aggregate, however, these battles present a very unflattering commentary on Harvard and on the level of political activity among her students...