Word: part
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spokesmen for the H.T.D.C. (Harvard Thanksgiving Day Committee) jubilantly interpreted this move on the University's part as a concession to their demands that every man in the University have perfect freedom in deciding which of the two disputed days he wishes to worship as his Thanksgiving...
...last year's three most highly acclaimed ingenues, along with Frances Farmer and Julie Haydon, Miss Hagen was unknown three years ago. Her first real break was playing, the title part in "The Seagull" with the Lunts, and since then her rise in the dramatic world has gained wide attention...
Chester N. Greenough, Professor of English, died in the spring of 1938, and Kirsopp Lake, Professor of History, resigned in 1937. Professor Lake is an example of a man giving only part time to the English department. George L. Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, resigned...
...many years now there has been a definite trend towards personalizing Harvard education, a trend in which the Grant Study is the latest example. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the Board of Freshman Advisers are all part of this trend. But these examples are attempts to adapt the individual more nearly to the requirements of a Harvard education. With the advent of the Grant Study, a conscious attempt is being made for the first time in its history to adapt Harvard education to the undergraduate...
...hiring and firing rules, designed in part to ease the budgetary strain by eliminating deadwood at the assistant professor level, correspond almost exactly to Harvard's recently adopted system...