Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quintet skied in the Fronconia Club Pre-season Cross Country Race against a field of 83. First finisher for the varsity was freshman Dan Stephenson, who placed 52nd, in the time of 58:15, a little more than ten minutes after first place John Ceoly of Dartmouth...
Chairman Sir Miles Thomas: "A magnificent achievement . . . Britain is maintaining her pre-eminence in the development of civil jet aviation." Sir Miles should have known better. Since the end of World War II, Britain's proud planemakers have claimed the sky for promising new planes, only to see one after another go down as galling and expensive flops...
World War II once again opened the Houses to the freshman, as the members of '46 were given their choice of House or Yard. But the University re-established the pre-war system once it cleared away the uniforms...
...uneven in quality, they got little help or supervision from their seniors and they are, by definition, inexperienced. We must face the fact that our heavy reliance on them means a watering down of the quality of Harvard instruction. Yet largely because of the expansion in size over the pre-war College which has already occurred we are using them much more extensively than before. Table 7 in the Notes on Harvard College offers illuminating evidence on this. If we add a thousand or more undergraduates we shall inevitably have to use Teaching Fellows even more extensively, with a further...
...dormitories. We need housing for married students and younger faculty. We need a new infirmary and medical building, a theatre, more chemistry laboratories, more office space for administration and faculty. More important, we need to raise faculty salaries at least 25 per cent if our teachers are to reach pre-war levels of compensation or to lesson the compensation gap between academic and other professions. Every department has more or less pressing needs which require new endowment. The recent report on the behavioral sciences at Harvard describes some of the urgent needs in that areas. We need new endowment...