Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College prestige is affected by the outcome of these tournaments. If the Council could obtain enough money to send consistently excellent teams to the major tourneys, it would add considerably to the University's good name. Other difficulties would also disappear given a steady income. The Council would no longer be forced to return the hotel-room hospitality of our opponents with an extra couch in a dormitory room; nor would teams travelling to other Ivy colleges be forced to pay for their own meals and part of their tickets...
...resulting report, submitted to the University on March 29, said there were "some 400 married students, now paying from $50 to $100 rent per month, who desire housing of the type which the University proposes to destroy, and who have tried to obtain such housing." Many of these will not have finished their college work until June, 1951, the report added...
...evident," says Seitz, "that an appreciable component of Congress is not aware of the conditions which must be met if we are to obtain the most from our scientific fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...
After 15 years as editor, Weyer is still as enthusiastic about a daffodil as about a dinosaur. For that reason, Constant Reader Kieran could write in the anniversary issue: "A regular reader ... is bound to obtain a liberal education in the natural sciences with no feeling of pain...
...popular misconception that men with high grades get more preference at Lowell than at other Houses, according to Perkins. Students are picked to obtain a "cross-section" of the student body, he says. If the Lowell House authorities can't pick a representative sample out of first choice applicants, Perkins says they'll start taking second-choice...