Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otherwise they met at meals, usually with several guests present, or at receptions, with several hundred. Life for the President became so crowded that his sons soon gave up going to their father for advice; he seldom had time to talk with them at any length...
...Kirkland House Music Committee will present Chester Fanning Smith '50 in plano concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kirkland Junior Common Room...
What is needed to remedy this situation is a modification of the present universal language requirement. Since it is feasible that men in certain departments like European history or science might find some use for a language, they should continue to meet at least the present minimum requirement. Perhaps there should even be a broader and more comprehensive one, including some basic knowledge of foreign culture and intellectual history. But for others, an altogether different standard should be set perhaps in some cases no standard at all, since a little language is not worth much...
Such a revision could best be carried out by transferring the jurisdiction over language requirements to the individual departments. By allowing them to set departmental requirements, the difficulties in the present college-wide system would be avoided. Whereas some students would acquire a broader and more useful language background than is now mandatory under the present system, others could better use their time taking general education courses...
...elective office. I think it fair and realistic to say that many of the talented men at Harvard haven't any great interest in student politics. To say they should have, and organize the Council as if they did, is to beg the issue; and that is what the present Constitution does...