Word: selections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such evidence, scattered and tentative as it is, may well seem powerful ammunition to the pure-phonics advocates. But the experts could marshal similar test scores and statistics, and they could point out that the phonics experiments have been tried only in small and select school systems. They could also add with complete justification that whatever system is used, today's schools, committed as they are to giving every boy and girl an education, no matter what his capabilities, are up against a heavier problem than any school system has ever faced before. Out of the controversy, it seems...
...letter to Cabot, Ginn replied "If great achievements are to be the criteria for appointment despite mistakes in judgment (even in a matter of espionage), why not select Alger Hiss and Richard Whitney to serve on the corporation...
...Molotov made it only too clear at Geneva that the decision not to threaten the world with war did not include any serious intention to lift the iron curtain. Clearly we must take it for granted that the Russian leaders will follow the usual lines of political warfare and select their facts to suit their audiences. It is conceivable that Mr. Khrushchev did not realize that the British have for at least two generations ceased to be crass enough to call the Burmese "barbarians." But that does not alter the fact that the Russians undoubtedly won an immense response from...
...administration of so large a gift solely to the institutions themselves. "It is the view of the trustees of the foundation," said Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, Ford Trustee and President of Harvard's Board of Overseers, "that creative scholarly work is best done by creators who select their own tasks...
...return their proofs to the Yearbook office, 52 Dunster St., Robert O. Tyler '56, president of the Yearbook, announced yesterday. After Tuesday, they will have to bring them to the Harvard Studio, 669 Boylston St. If the proofs are not returned to the studio by Friday, Yearbook editors will select one of the pictures, good...