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Harvard cannot immediately revamp the preparatory school structure, and it may find outright adoption of the Chicago plan impracticable. But by a number of partial reforms it can succeed in widening the pigeon-hole horizons of its undergraduates. The modern language requirement should be pushed off onto the prep schools entirely, and pressure should be brought on those schools to prepare their fledglings more fully for the flight into Higher Learning. In addition, Harvard can broaden the scope of its own introductory courses, in order to make them less of a "closed shop" for concentrators in the field...
...been that he had a swell band until nineteen thirty-six and the coming of Harry James--that he and his band suffered a serious drop in both popularity and real playing ability--that Benny hung onto his sadly dilapidated powerhouse style until last year when he started to revamp his band...
...present, it is not necessary to revamp the whole system of appointments and tenure. It is only necessary for President Conant to act over the heads of the Fine Arts Six and reinstate Professor Feild. Although departmental autonomy may be desirable as a general rule, the president in exceptional circumstances is fully justified in exercising his prerogative of superior authority. Beyond this, it would be well for the Faculty Committee of Nine to undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts set-up, with a view toward evaluating the methods now used and those which might be introduced...
...teach the teacher. Both were alarmed at the sharpness with which Franklin Roosevelt-and U. S. public opinion-has slapped at Dictators Hitler and Mussolini, and by implication has frowned upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...
...quite a year ago, the then president of the New York Stock Exchange, Charles R. Gay, yielding to the demand of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, started looking for a man to serve on a committee to revamp the Exchange's constitution. He picked a nonmember industrialist whose company was listed on the Big Board-Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. The recommendations of the Conway Committee eventually became the basis for the spectacular reform of the world's chief market place (TIME, Feb. 7, et seq.). Last week upon the nomination of Exchange President William...