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Word: presents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article states that "the Indian in Salt Lake and Ogden is lost, friendless and generally out of a job." They are not all lost or friendless. The Mormon Church has at present nearly 400 Indian children, representing 13 different tribes, living with Mormon families throughout the state of Utah. These Indian children are being treated as "one of the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Freshman Debate Council will face Yale and Princeton tonight, debating the resolution: "That the present peacetime draft be abolished." The Yardling team will take the negative in the event, which will be held in the Union banquet room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen to Debate | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

...Student Council made the original request for extension of Lamont hours. At present, the Council is also requesting an extension of parietal hours and will poll students on the subject before the end of the month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Will Close Later During May | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

...Present sections are noble in principle and inadequate in practice. If there were a nucleus of discussion at the meetings, instead of desultory questions or a third lecture by the section man, actuality might approach potential. One method of stimulating discussion might be effected by requiring concise, one-page papers throughout the term on questions suggested by the week's readings. One of the term's longer papers might be dropped and a requirement of six to eight short expositions substituted. Students could hand these in on weeks when they chose. Exercises like this would eliminate the need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Education... | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

...idea of sections is not at fault; potentially they offer much that is valuable. Proposals that there should be a "seminar" program recognize that questions in literature and political theory, for instance, should be picked apart in discussion. A strengthening of the present sections and introduction of seminar-type courses should thus be attempted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Education... | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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