Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming to power last May, Charles de Gaulle made his dramatic offer to the French African territories: they could have the choice between 1) complete independence, 2) autonomy within the French Community, or 3) the status of a department of France. Toure charged that the whole idea of a French Community-which came close, but not close enough, to the British Commonwealth-would only continue "our status of perpetual dependence, our status of indignity, our status of insubordination." When De Gaulle stopped off at Conakry on his swift tour of Africa before the referendum, Toure thundered in his presence...
Goheen feels that, far from letting some clubs fold and allowing much of the student body to desert the club system, Prospect Street will accomodate the more academically-orientated atmosphere of the New Princeton. He sees "hopeful signs of the clubs' trying to offer some of the quasi-academic virtues of the Quad system." The next few years, as Wilson Lodge and the Quad grow, will determine the accuracy of Goheen's prediction...
...addition, the Committee presents a specific program for imparting this "idea" to the knowledge-hungry young scholar. Courses should be instituted which offer a "knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science and give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today." Such courses would unquestionably be very beneficial for a student with some touch of scientific curiosity, but it is a bit difficult to see just why they would give this idea of scientific discipline (as a molding force in modern life) any better than Nat. Sci. 10 does...
...order that the faculty be able conveniently to offer such courses, the report suggested that the various science departments increase their staffs where necessary and that in filling new positions due attention be given, as is rarely the case at present, to the problem of elementary instruction...
...selling ads were the only task of the business editor's the Business Board would hold little appeal for most Harvard-men. However, this board--the last holdout against creeping faminism--has much more to offer...