Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorial is the last in the first part of a series in which the Crimson is undertaking an examination of undergraduate life at Harvard. The editorials in the first part of the series have attempted to reveal the situation as it is, not to reach final conclusions nor to recommend changes. Later editorials will view the picture as a whole and take a definite stand on problems that have been raised, and the final part of the series will make definite recommendations...
...bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over unobstructed ground. The bureau suggested Kitty Hawk...
...taken, that is as much as to say that it samples accurately what each student knows, from which it follows that Mr. Cramer can teach a student more in six hours than he can learn from the Department of History in six weeks. In that event I should recommend that Mr. Cramer be hired on the spot to teach History...
...John Quincy Adams, who died at 80 as a Congressman, had an eye for the female form. (Excerpts from his diary: Miss Frazier "has what is called a genteel shape"; Miss Cazneau "has nothing in her person to recommend her but a very good shape. . . . Mrs. Jones . . . exhibited an arm . . . which might fire the imagination of a sensual voluptuary...
...John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government scientists through their learned societies...