Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of signing up for specific subjects, qualified students will be able to register in terms of the length of time they plan to stay. For example, a person in GSAS taking two courses may list himself as a half-time student, and, under a new ruling, receive credit for one of the required two full years of residence...
...FINAL, and MIDNIGHT REPORT. It is intended to blend late evening news coverage into one program which presents a unified approach to events ranging from the strictly local to the international. Often, for example, a Harvard professor will comment publicly on a political issue; on the other hand a person of world reknown will often visit the Harvard community. ALL THE NEWS, by juxtaposing the coverage of these events, places each story in its proper context both here at Harvard and in the global scene...
These cautious changes and promises hint that Franco is looking ahead to the day when Spain will be ruled by another person, or people, who won't have the prestige of being "the first Falangiste" to lean upon. Yet, the very fact that Franco has broadened his administration and pledges to loosen up, even very gradually and carefully, on censorship suggests his fear of continually suppressed criticism in a dictatorship whose stability may well rest solely upon Franco...
...this rather enigmatic man is his ability to laugh at himself and at the world. With a combination of strictly disciplined yet imaginative logic and endearing generosity, interest and vitality, there are few of his students or colleagues who do not find him an enormously stimulating if somewhat complex person...
...person unfamiliar with course organization at Harvard, the two-week period before midyear, and the three week interim before final, exams might look suspiciously like time set aside for cramming. In fact, he might think unprincipled professors used these periods to gather up the odds and ends, or the dregs, of their courses, enabling them to stuff their students a little fuller and to cross off the remaining titles on their syllabi. Taking notice of the remarkable number of extracurricular activities at Harvard, and taking human nature into account, he probably would doubt that periods placed at such propitious times...