Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before five o'clock shadows chased Bolles' crews off the River, a month and a half of practice was culminated in a series of trial races, and from these, although they were conducted on a generally more leisurely level than the spring exertions, Bolles got a line on what he has to look forward to in April...
...Sixty-five percent of the student body definitely prefers the A.B. while only ten percent stands by the S.B. On the other hand, the College's long run educational philosophy being developed in the General Education plan will increasingly emphasize the basic unity of all learning on the college level, pointing logically to one bachelor degree...
...thinking basic to all advanced study. But almost any one of the major fields of learning--history, modern languages, English, natural sciences--are capable of being taught as mental disciplines It is also conceivable that a candidate for admission may have himself developed his innate faculties to the required level in spite of inadequate formal schooling. The Committee on Admission's liberal power of discretion under a general commitment to emphasize "quality of work in a well-rounded program suited to the abilities of the individual" has been eminently satisfactory. If the University can induce secondary schools to include more...
...most cogent reasons for opposing a general rise in the level of student veterans' subsistence allotments is that only a minority of those who would receive the raise really need it. If everyone could be counted on to spend the entirety of his new allotment for absolute necessities, this additional purchasing power would contribute nothing to the current inflationary spiral; but this condition will not result when the majority of veterans are living adequately, though not sumptuously, for the increase would be spent on non-necessity items which otherwise would not be purchased...
...they were legion. The very fact of their fewness means that the needs of these marginal students can be met by an agency with fewer resources than the United States government. The University itself is the best source of aid to its marginal students because only at the local level can the amount of assistance be made compatible with the degree of need...