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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove a hollow mockery. The erudite student finds that his time will be best spent in evolving a system for writing exams and term papers. Unfortunately, the faculty has been wising up recently and such veteran maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy; 5) The room-mate export or phony reference ploy...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

Once he has decided, he submits his ideas to a permanent set of advisers on any of four university campuses-Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge and London. His advisers in turn recommend a top authority to write the piece Yust wants-at EB's traditional 2? a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From A to Zygote | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...among the last ten ships between Hungnam and Pusan. No men waded to ships.* Final 150 troops were lifted from beach by LVTs. There was no fighting on beachhead or nearby departing ships on final day. Troops on last ten ships . . . have not been recommitted to front lines . . . Strongly recommend take exception to ethics employed by editor of newspaper in publicizing so distorted, scurrilous and irresponsible a letter without offering the Navy an opportunity to substantiate or deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Misfire | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...course would like to recommend an increase in medical fees to cover longer hours for doctors and new equipment. The doctors themselves wonder if such expenditures would stop student complaints anyway. Part of the answer may be found in better administration, like the investigation of first aid facilities. But for the rest, the doctors may yet have to seek University help for diagnosis and prescription. Whether students would like the medicine is another question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wealth and Welfare | 1/9/1951 | See Source »

They are wrong. To recommend himself, Franco can offer not even the virtue of usefulness. Lacking planes, tanks, any kind of modern equipment or training, his divisions would be helpless against invaders. Without staggering investment in roads, airports, and railroads, they could not even use what equipment we might give them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Aid Franco? | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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