Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nothing But Good." Informed of his indictment, Connelly said: "There is a little group of willful men now in power in Washington. They have called Harry S. Truman a traitor. Now, because of my association with him, they are calling me a crook . . . I shall recommend that people in high places should read the Bill of Rights." Caudle was more succinct. Wailed he: "I never did anything but good...
About the only thing Little Codfish Cabot at Harvard has to recommend it is its delightful title. This little inanity, written by Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., '21 and illustrated by F. Wendworth Saunders '24, could not possibly have enjoyed too much acclaim when it appeared in 1924. It follows the education of a prep-schooled boy at Harvard, his introduction to various customs at Harvard, and his impeccable Bostonian reaction to all situations. The cartoons are poor, and what comment there is can be summarized as inconsequental...
...approved project. The Faculty has specified that a student may "avoid" only two half-courses in this way during his college career, but otherwise there is very little restriction or supervision. The Committee on Advanced Standing has approved almost all course reduction applications that a student's Department has recommended, and it leaves any supervision of the applicant's advanced work to his own tutor. There are no marks, and often no papers or reports, either. Theoretically, any junior or senior honors candidate can qualify for course reduction; in practice, however, a Department will hesitate to recommend a student...
...this suggestion would not be a tremendous time-saver, it would at least be a step in the right direction. Any freshman able to pass that other "step in the right direction"--the Step Test--would hardly suffer from the lack of exercise. The Athletic Council should in turn recommend to the Faculty for final approval a one hour per week reduction in the sports requirement for freshmen...
Keppel said he based his optimism on the fact that it will focus national attention on the education problem, and that perhaps some policies which the meeting's 2000 delegates recommend will be adopted in the President's program to Congress...