Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect, the honor system may be divided into a spirit of honor and a system of permissions. The spirit is an ideal of conduct which has characterized the College for many years, producing a special sort of maturity in the Radcliffe student and preparing her to live under the present system of a few reasonable, concise rules, always flexible to fit the individual situation...
...present system, which has gained the cautious approval of deans and students alike, has developed cyclically over a half century. During the general unrest of the nineteen-twenties, Radcliffe girls were bound by a social system of comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend...
...with the distaste felt by many towards Federal money in the field of education due to the danger of possible regulation, the piddling sum involved, only $25,000 this year, has led many observers to question the wisdom of the University entangling itself in the Federal program. Under the present act, they point out, the most money the University, including all the Graduate schools, can receive is $250,000, a relatively insignificant sum in a loan program where $400,000 in long term notes was issued by the College alone...
WHRB's March series, "German Report," will be rebroadcast during the last week of April. Many favorable comments were received praising the programs narrated by German born Horst Weise. The series presents voices of German leaders from Ulbricht to Hitler, interviews with citizens, recordings from German festivals and radio programs, and a clear anaysis of the present Berlin crisis...
...Voices that live. Steven Bell presents a program dedicated to great singers, past and present...