Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emphasizing his opinion that the intercollegiate and intramural programs were still valuable, he stated that the department would try to retain the best features of both. "In the case of our intramural teams," he said, "we intend to shift the emphasis from recreation to conditioning...
...world situation, stands as the most war-torn department of all the various language fields and English. The smaller departments have found that their cliques of faithful adherents will not desert them to the more warlike concentrations, and the larger have been able to adjust their programs and retain their usefulness and attractiveness...
With 267 concentrators listed last November, English is the second largest field in the College, only surpassed by Government. Because of their very nature the courses in English have not been altered in content or number, but have simply seen internal shiftings of emphasis, The fundamental courses, especially, will retain their ante-bellum form, but the department foresees the necessity of trimming its "topsails." One expected addition this summer, however, will be English 190b, Literature and Democracy, to be given by Faculty Instructor Harry Levin with Associate Professor Perry Miller this summer and Associate Professor Francis O. Matthiessen next winter...
...Catherine of Sienna, and on what day did Hitler burn the Reichstag? The particulars are soon lost. What is "left over," what remains, is the ability to make accurate generalizations, to get to the heart of an issue and make comprehensive deductions from any given set of facts. To retain this is to approach what President Conant calls, "a study that 'may so accumulate years to us as though we had lived from the beginning of time'." To retain this is to approach a liberal education...
...here!" Douglas MacArthur once said of his presence in the Philippines. He was no man to forget Destiny when he said good-by to his heroes on Bataan. He was to take command of all United Nations forces in the Australian area. By remote control, he was to retain strategic command of Bataan. If the Japanese were to be stopped short of the Western Hemisphere, Douglas MacArthur would stop them. Of Destiny, he could ask no more...