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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faded daguerreotype, with a high, old-fashioned lectern, a desk with a topply mound of books and a cut-glass pitcher of water, a McKinley-era chair. Into this setting shuffles the spry, white-maned humorist in the white suit. Involuntary tremors ripple the stiffened fingers, the lower jaw nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked but not ruined, speaks, and the evening begins showering comic sparks...
...individual businessman who is the victim of a conspiracy by his competitors and suppliers the U.S. Supreme Court last week handed a potent antitrust club. Overruling two lower courts, it ordered a trial for a private businessman on the ground that the attempted elimination of even one merchant from the market tended to monopoly...
...proposal that advanced placement students majoring in the Humanities or Social Sciences be allowed to waive the lower level Gen Ed requirement in their field caused sharp disagreement among professors of General Education yesterday...
...annual report to the faculty, delivered last week, Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing in Harvard College, suggested that "the relationship of Advanced Placement to General Education should be reconsidered." Wilcox pointed out that advanced placement concentrators in the Natural Sciences are exempt from the lower level Nat. Sci. requirement, but that advanced concentrators in the Humanities and Social Sciences still have to take an elementary Gen Ed course in their field...
...Bullitt '43, associate professor of English, were completely opposed to the proposal. Bullitt explained that the criterion for waiving General Education requirements should not be whether a student has gained Advanced Placement, but rather what kind of actual preparation he has received. Since "some things are done in these lower level courses that aren't done anywhere else in the University," individual decisions should be made in each case, he added...