Word: path
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...path to the B.A. degree is not continuous throughout four years. Students first spend one year in a "pre-university course," and proceed to three year's study for the degree only after passing a public examination. B.A. candidates take a total of twelve such public examinations in four years. Because they are all-important and because they are rigidly administered by external committees, these exams are the bane of the Indian student's life...
When discussion of General Educations begins at today's meeting, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, will have the floor. Doty has prepared a package of six motions, and he is now on the path--asking acceptance of the non-administrative recommendations in his Committee's report. He and Richard T. '48 are expected to speak in favor the report's proposals...
Some emerging nations seem convinced that they can best establish status by expelling or jailing American diplomats. An increasing number, fortunately, have found a more useful path to national pride: hiring foreign architects to design government buildings, hospitals, universities and even cities. To meet this demand, a colony of American firms has sprung up in Rome, which otters the nearest reservoir of technical talent and the best transportation to the underdeveloped nations. Last week Rome's top American architects ranged over Africa and Asia Minor, supervising hospital construction in Nigeria and Iraq, launching a highway project in Libya, delivering...
Skiing & Taxes. Basically, the formula is the one on which John Jacob Astor rode to riches more than a cen tury ago as the No. 1 landlord of Manhattan: buy land in the path of population expansion and profit from its development or sale at soaring prices. Accordingly, most of today's corporate involvement lies in the West or South west. In Southern California, nine industrial companies are building or planning projects embracing 319 sq. mi. Since land is the world's only major commodity in fixed supply, while population constantly rises, investment in land...
...Westerners, the Hindu mind often seems like that frustrating garden in Through the Looking-Gloss, which Alice couldn't penetrate because even the most promising path "gave a sudden twist and shook itself" and led her right back to the door. As Alice learned, the only way in is to go blithely in the opposite direction. The reader who does the same may get some fun and a certain impalpable sense of enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village...