Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, the entire Romance Languages Department went on record unanimously in favor of the Sweet Briar Plan. Associate Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department, feels that students are under adequate supervision and do at least as much work as they would in this country. He points out that awarding of credit by Harvard would be a comparatively simple matter. The French university would send the College a transcript of the student's record. If his grades were satisfactory, the College would grant credit for a full year. If they were not, credit would of course be withheld...
...Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should be prepared (in order to keep a record) and the works themselves sent "to decorate Makerere College in Uganda or the corridors of some Fijian veterinary school...
...Jokers. But the Long Island kept on losing money anyway, except for three war years, when it made $4.4 million. Last year, with record revenues of $52 million, it lost a record $6 million. It also stirred up a record outcry from commuters when it broke down almost completely under the winter's snow storms (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). (One passenger, after 8½ hours aboard one stymied train, complained of claustrophobia, sued the Long Island for "false imprisonment...
...hectic third period two minor fights broke out, Kittredge and Tom Moseley being the Crimson players involved, but no penalties were called. For the record no penalties being called seemed to be the order of the day in New Haven, as Yale players made copious use of the elbow as an offensive weapon and both sides engaged in aimless tripping and charging...
Miriam Van Waters is now back at her job. The last two months, during which her record as superintendant of the State Reformatory for Women was overwhelmingly vindicated, has been an enlightening interruption in a brilliant career. As Dr. Van Waters herself said, the fight against Commissioner McDowell has been useful in making the public concerned about the problem of female delinquents. Dr. Van Waters treated inmates at the Framingham institution as students working patiently back into society. The Commissioner, on the other hand, considered transgressors as prisoners who had to be forced to respect...