Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared for such a radical step, the question to raised whether we should not give careful consideration to the advisability of individualizing education in Harvard College still further. Instead of laying out plans of study in terms of courses and other requirements, might it not be well to permit an able student, in consultation with his adviser and tutor, to work out a program which would conform to his own ideas as to what he wished to obtain from his field of special study...
Raising the question of whether even the new inter-departmental concentration fields might prove too much like strait-jackets for able students, he said, "Instead of laying out plans of study in terms of courses and other requirements, might it not be well to permit an able student, in consultation with his adviser and tutor, to work out a program which would conform to his own ideas as to what he wished to obtain from his field of special study...
...differed with the unions on their statement that the contract signed last year did not permit students to be substituted for employees...
...than eight million dollars last year. As long as there is private wealth, there will always be men who are willing to give money to a university--provided it is worth it. Before drastically "adjusting" its academic standing to its diminishing income. Harvard can still ask its benefactors to permit immediate expenditure of current gifts. But the fact remains that it is only be continuing to be worthy of new endowments that Harvard can assure itself of a prosperous future...
...Observatory's estimates of the amount and reliability of New England wind and power were sufficiently complete to permit the design of apparatus and the selection of tentative sites for large-scale generation of electricity by wind power...