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...Harold C. Hunt, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, took issue with Griswold's statement that secondary schools turn out students so poorly prepared for college that "the whole fabric of higher education becomes a bridge built upon rotten pilings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hunt Defends Public Schools Against Report by Griswold | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...public relations problem. President Pusey's statement points to a partial palliative, but it is like giving a man with a broken arm a temporary anesthetic. No matter how much the public learns about Harvard's accomplishments, it will still point to those who use the Fifth Amendment as rotten apples that can ruin the whose University barrel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accent on Accomplishment | 12/8/1953 | See Source »

Benjamin Jacobson, owner of the Gold Coast Valeteria, now has admitted selling preferred tickets to his customers, Leighton said. Jacobson still denies, however, either selling complimentary tickets or charging more than regulation price for preferred seats. When first charged with selling tickets, Jacobson had termed the accusation "a dirty, rotten, ridiculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigation Fails to Yield Evidence of Ticket Scalping | 11/25/1953 | See Source »

...record, India is not alarmed by the Communist threat. "We are delighted," says the External Affairs Ministry, "to see our backward neighbor making so much progress." Nehru has told the Indian army not to fortify the frontier itself, so as not to provoke the Chinese. "It's bloody rotten for us that the British never feared any danger from Tibet," one Indian officer grumbled last week. "They would have fortified all the passes and we could just move in and make tea. As it is now, if we even build a blockhouse on the border. Mr. Lung [meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle for the Himalayas | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Pitted against a ragged, experienced team from the Yale Daily News at 10:30 a.m., the Crimeds, game to their own rotten core, must win to salvage a season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Mockmouse Sees Crime Rampant; FMVW Cahonct OK | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

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