Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into one of these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base of general knowledge. This is the avowed purpose of the system for concentration and distribution of undergraduate studies...
...Anglo-Saxon Americans still retain a warm regard for what we knew as England. But that was a fighting and not a whining England. We think that it is England's tragedy when Englishmen accuse us of wanting to use England as our shield in a war with Russia. What kind of a shield would England make? Unless she gets up off her spiritual fanny, she will be a minor province of the Russian Empire-and soon...
...Princeton and Yale, in addition, combinations of Music Department, Athletic Association, and student organization funds buy uniforms, sheet-music; and occasionally rare instruments. The Harvard Band does not want such extensive subsidization. It prefers to retain completely independent status, and to pay its own expenses for all home games. During the current season, the band has managed to do so largely through sales of the Ivy League Album, which have garnered about $3,800; in the future, concerts will help to pay for the organization's non-commercial outings. But the band cannot, and should not, continue to make...
...summer complaint") kills because it drains the baby's body of water and salts. Doctors have tried to prevent dehydration by feeding the victims large amounts of saline fluids, but this treatment did not help much. Something was needed-some substance that made it possible for babies to retain the fluids. After long study, Pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow, of Yale's School of Medicine, decided that potassium was the important substance; the old treatments were not using enough of it. Babies with diarrhea sometimes lose one-fourth of the potassium in their body cells...
...from service with alarming frequency. This destruction of rare and out-of-print works seriously hampers the efficiency of the University library system. Coupled with increasing book thefts by a few slippery dips, the mutilation of library property becomes a problem that must be solved if students expect to retain generous reading privileges...