Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confusion was compounded by an erroneous report in the New York Times that the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific forces, Admiral Harry D. Felt, had questioned the Quemoy policy for such unlikely reasons as an alleged ammunition shortage that would inspire, the story said, the fleet to early use of nuclear warheads. (The fact was that Felt cabled heavy support for the policy shortly after he was first asked to comment three weeks ago, felt his force suitable to the job.) The President's mail reflected public apprehension, and he decided to fight the confusion with his major...
Last February, the CEP, headed by Dean Bundy and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, issued a short but significant report containing far-reaching proposals for amending Honors and non-Honors instruction. Guided by its belief that "many able students are not doing their best under existing conditions, because they are not sufficiently engaged or challenged," the Committee presented to the Faculty what has since been termed the "Honors for all" program...
Final determination of a student's Honors status would be based on course grades, tutorial work, a senior year general examination, and a senior thesis, which the CEP report termed "one of the most successful elements in our present educational practice...
Since education requires students, and the broad provisions of the CEP's report require outstanding, academically motivated students, the processes whereby Harvard selects her undergraduates will in time and by necessity come under closer and more critical scrutiny. Already it is clear that an obvious hypocrisy is perpetrated by the Admissions Office's enduring attachment to the man of "character" as opposed to the grind. Too often the men of "character" turn out to be merely pleasant fellows who are intellectually alone at Harvard...
...heartening factor concerns money, and it will take a great deal of it to finance the program outlined by the CEP report. A recent gift of $100,000 from Procter and Gamble to the Program for Harvard College has been ear-marked for the Honors Program Fund, and this hopefully is the first of many steps towards financing what in future years may prove to be the most significant development in education since education became General