Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost a year later, in March, 1939, this same "Committee of Eight" issued a long report urging drastic revision of the University's hiring-and-firing procedure to prevent teachers from being fired by mistake. Among their proposals was the suggestion that the rank of assistant professor be abolished...
Starting with the worst offender, the plan wipes from the streets the subway entrance. This liberates a hundred and fifty more square feet in which a traffic light would settle the problem of cars. Surrounding gas and water mains prevent the re-location of the entrance, but the present little-used stairways could be easily converted and enlarged. The one by Lehman Hall would be the regular exit, and the entrance would be through the other by Hayes-Bickford. Accompanying this revolution the busses would all be diverted to Eliot Square adjacent to the El repair yards. Here...
...seven weeks between June 27 and August 15, 18 to 20 college men, including a maximum of 15 from Harvard, will reconstruct a dam which was washed out fourteen years ago, causing considerable crop damage since then by allowing annual floods to prevent planting...
...freedoms of Franklin Roosevelt. Apparently the defeat of Hitler, the restoration of peace, and the creation of an international order are the proper first steps. Any internal economic or social changes will have to follow peace. Yet this view admittedly runs the risk of any Versailles; it does not prevent war's recurrence because it does not strike at its causes...
Although an earlier date was announced last week, the Freshman Jubilee Committee was forced to delay the annual affair until May 23 because of the conflicting Freshman athletic program. May 16 is the Yale week end for most Yardling spring sports and would prevent a great number of boys from attending...