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...responsibility, he says Harvard was not at all helpful when delays first occurred. In fact, Cruz claims Harvard is responsible for a considerable portion of the cost overrun because of changes in the original plans, restrictions placed on the monthly cash flow, delays allegedly based on racism and priority placement on some crucial materials. Because he is carrying the entire burden for the cost of the six-month-delayed completion, Cruz is looking into the possibility of future legal action...
...agenda for the committees this year is the task of determining the nature of the requirements for a basic proficiency in mathematics and a foreign language-- recommended in the Core report. Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, said it is clear from a placement test in mathematics on the pre-calculus level, given to all freshmen for the first time last year, that many entering freshmen are poorly prepared in mathematics. One-third of last year's class could not answer correctly half of the questions on the test. Gleason heads a group of Faculty members...
...Placement test in French. Ho ho. Didn't get a 560 on your French achievement, did you? Well, if you do okay on this test you don't have to take a year of languages, which is nice. The tests aren't toohard, and they are offered in German, Spanish, Chemistry, Math, Italian, Latin, Modern Hebrew, Greek and Russian. The nonlanguage jobs are for placement only, and they all take place at various times throught the week. An unavoidable necessity, unless you're a non-science type who already placed out of the language requirement. In which case you ought...
...reason is obvious and ominous: the ever increasing influence of federal law and regulation over the lives of all Americans, as well as over the businesses they operate and the groups they join. The Federal Government now has rules ranging from the establishment of whisky tax rates to the placement of toilets on construction sites, from the design of atomic power plants to the milk content of ice cream, from foreign arms sales to childproof tops on aspirin bottles. A single clause tucked away in the Federal Register of regulations (this year's version has already grown to a mountainous...
...administrator in what is now the Office of Career Placement, Miss Stedman was known as an excellent administrator, an innovator, and "as a friend to many students," Barbara L. Norton '38, executive secretary of the Radcliffe Alumni Association, said yesterday...