Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses is explained by the fact that they were set up in 1836 under the will of John Lowell, who specified that their fee should be equivalent to the value of four bushels of wheat. Until 1910 Harvard alone conducted the courses, but in that year other local colleges and universities joined it to form the Commission of Extension Courses...
Application forms will be available at local draft boards and at Phillips Brooks House after October 1. They must be postmarked no later than midnight November...
During the Depression years, he changed jobs quickly: 1929, head of the Spanish and French departments of the local high school; 1930, junior master of Boston Latin School ("Since everyone there was called a 'junior master' the title didn't mean anything"); 1931, master (one of 15) of a grammar school; 1936, transferred to Roberts Grammar School, where he remained until this summer...
Under existing regulations a local board may consider a student for determent if he has made a grade of 70 or more on the qualification test or maintains standing in a specified portion of the male members of his class, ranging from the upper half of the freshman class to the upper three-fourths of the junior class...
Besides realizing that Cambridge needs a program of improvements--from new schools to revised zoning laws--Curry, thanks to a number of years as administrator of Boston Latin and other schools, has enough ability to push it through. Although he is not too well versed in local politics and inherits a split CCA and a split City Council, he is shrewd enough to avoid serious trouble. His main problem is rising costs--a problem, it seems, that afflicts all governments save the Federal variety--and regrettably he is not noted as a particularly brilliant financeer...