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...undergraduates, the main interest in the new plan lies in the three College courses the department has added. From now on these will be required for all Architecture majors. With the common background supplied by these courses a good student will have the chance to overlap his last year in College with his first year in Design School, to get his M.A. in seven years instead of the traditional eight...
Colorful Arthur Darby Nock heads a tip of lecturers discussing the history of religions in Harvard Hall 4. Since the course only covers religious groups up to the time Judaism began, it is not likely that this will overlap anything you learned in Sunday school. Professor Daniel Ingalls will be there to talk about India. The pageant is called History of Religions 101a...
...Provost's job, including ex officio that of Dean, is an arduous one. Ultimate authority for the College is shared by the Faculty and the Corporation, though the line between them is never quite clear and their responsibilities overlap. In addition, inside and outside the Faculty there are committees to be canvassed, people to be consulted, boards to be placated-so much so that the pie is practically hidden for all the fingers in it. All these groups, true to Harvard's most ancient convention, disagree continually. For thirteen years the Provost, with the President's cooperation and advice...
This incongruous overlap of civilization and savagery, magic and machinery, makes many Britons doubt whether the Gold Coast is ready to rule itself. When African political parties march past the European Club in Accra, members raise their voices and go on discussing polo and trade as if the apparition outside were in hopelessly bad taste. Yet Britain's Colonial Office takes the Gold Coast dead seriously. Major James Lillie-Costello, the monocled press officer who handles Nkrumah for the British government, treats the Prime Minister as if he were Winston Churchill, manages to inject half a dozen "Sirs" into...
Thus far, however, the real rush has been to the Oil Bureau's map-lined Lima headquarters. There last week Director Noriega and his assistants pored over the rival claims, many of which overlap. Noriega hopes that his bureau can start handing out decisions by July. Then the rush to tap the new fields will really begin...