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...General Education program has been envisaged as a solution to this very problem. It is intended to provide students with a "common core of knowledge." Whether or not the program will eventually achieve this end is a moot issue at the moment, one that will be resolved only if and when the program becomes compulsory and is characterized by more of the suggestions made in the original Report. In the meantime, the undiscriminating methods of the lecture-books-examination system will continue in force, leaving undergraduates to their own varied, and in many cases, inadequate devices...
...close attack, Charley Gregg, showed his left handed shot to good advantage as he matched Estin with three tallies. HARVARD BLC Gregg 1.h. Weisheit Bezanson o.b. Hurley Abbot 1a Murnaghan Langer 2a Crolins Estin c Hulburd Withington 1d Dewey Snow 2d Thomas Graham pt Tinker Forsythe cp Moot Bernard g Schmidt...
...himself has little of the personal magnitude which made Richard Cresson Harlow the darling of the sports writers. But if this can be termed a weakness and that is a moot point--, it can also he called his strength; for Valpey's personality projection will never interfere with his judgment of the team under him the way Harlow...
Whether the more modest annual stipend of a senator ($10,000) could support an ex-president (former salary, $75,000) in the style to which he is accustomed is a moot point in these times of inflation and meatless Tuesdays. Other questions arise in the minds of solons already nervous about Congressional balance of power should Hawaii send three men to the Capital. Whom would a permanent senator represent? Would his automatic seniority be worthy of consideration in the allotment of committee chairmanships? Would these "older statesmen" break with party affiliation, and/or could they in the teeth of Congressional whips...
Good or bad, the bill posed a number of prime questions. Though it specifically excepted the state of Georgia's suit against Eastern railroads for discriminatory freight rates (TIME, April 9, 1945), many Senators thought that the Supreme Court would drop the case as a moot question, if the bill should become...