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Dormitory regulations for commuters, Miss Williams announced, have been drawn up by the office of the Dean of Residence. Under present rulings, commuters will also be able to get late permissions past 1 a.m. on special occasions...
feature of the library, if the architects approve present plans. Also in order are schemes to set up more efficient book shelving...
...purpose of the remodeling is to give Radcliffe students library facilities equal to that of Harvard undergraduates in Lamont Library," Dean Kerby-Miller said. As the first step to duplicate Lamont's course books, library officials will cut a 20,000 book deadweight from the present 100,000 volume collection. This cut will permit purchasing new books and increasing the number of duplicates for courses. Books for advanced study have already been moved to the New England Deposit Library, where they are available on order, and others valuable for graduate study may be sent to Widener...
...present system of social security and nationalization in England are "the legacy of the Fabian society," the author and lecturer told her audience. She foresees nationalization of insurance as the next Fabian suggestion to be incorporated by the Labor Government...
These suggestions add up to a full-time course for credit and such a course should be required for many graduate degrees, because the majority of professional people in the academic world go into teaching, not research. The present graduate curriculum creates a frame of mind often specialized and sophisticated to an ingrown stage, not oriented to teaching--which requires simplification and work with unmotivated students...