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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Dean Kirby-Miller, the Administrative Board feels that there are educational as well as physical disadvantages in the present system of separate examinations. "We feel it would be to the advantage of Radcliffe students to have finals given under the same situations as the whole course," she said...
Despite protestations to the contrary, the party has been and probably must continue to be preponderantly conservative in bias. This is necessary because of its present composition based on strength in the northeastern middle class and the agricultural heartland of the midwest. Furthermore, it seems likely that a majority of Americans are themselves conservative in bias, so that true conservatism can be described as good politics in the long run. The Republican difficulty lies in having allied itself with a group of essentially stupid, uneducated conservatives who appear to believe that conservative values (which they themselves do not understand...
...just as unfailingly aloof. He gives no tutorials, has made few academic changes, seldom even invites anyone in to tea. But last week all Oxford was talking about John Lowe. He had just been made vice chancellor, the nearest thing Oxford has to a president (the chancellorship, at present held by Lord Halifax, is largely honorary...
...they were upset by the election. The Wall Street Journal surveyed the U.S. and found that no one was canceling expansion plans or retrenching. And many businessmen were less worried about price controls-even stand-by ones -than the fact that buyers were shying away from many items at present prices-and prices would have to come down anyway...
Professor Henry Nash Smith of the University of Minnesota, present head of the executive committee, was renamed to lead the reorganized group at the Saturday meeting...