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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council's brilliant 1939 Report on Education went to the root of the matter, and suggested drastic remedies. Teachers and administrators may quail at the thought of organizing and staffing five broad "introductory area courses" such as the Council has suggested. And it may run against the grain to make such courses compulsory for all. But no one can ignore the glaring fissure in Harvard's educational structure; such measures as the Board of Freshman Advisers has taken may bridge the gap temporarily, but they will never close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SMATTERING OF IGNORANCE | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

...Cardiologist Ernst Philip Boas of Columbia, a newly elected member of the Comitia. Since the new position of executive secretary, said Dr. Boas, had not been approved by the membership, according to Society rules, it was illegal. If one penny was paid Dr. Hamilton, he said, Manhattan Lawyers Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine would raise legal hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Illegal, Immoral | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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