Word: owen
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Died. Edward Owen Cerf, 41, assistant managing editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
...Masters are also discussing the possibility of instituting voluntary non-Honors tutorial within the Houses. There would be difficulty, however, in coordinating such a system with the various departmental programs, David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, has pointed...
...David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, welcomed the sporting event, declaring, "We would like to have intellectual relations with Radcliffe, social relations with Wellesley, and athletic relations with Smith." The girls will be treated to dinner at the House tonight...
...twenty-seven, Tynan became dramatic critic for The Observer of London, in which capacity he speedily made an impressive international reputation, and last fall he came to America (which he had visited every year since 1952) to write for the New Yorker. And so to Master Owen's living room at Winthrop House, where he appeared last Sunday in a maroon suit and loose knotted tie: a tall young man in his early thirties, with a battery of firmly held, well-expounded, and well-supported opinions...
...honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could be changed to include only students in Group II. But this would vindicate a chance remark of Professor Owen, who commented in a History 142 lecture that the "gentleman's C" of yesteryear is now a "gentleman's B minus." If more students each year make the Dean's List because they are better students, it means that Harvard fails to raise its standards--what it expects of these...