Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman, Senator Taft, one of the bill's sponsors, and Dwight D. Elsenhower, president of Columbia University, will address the conference during its two-day session...
Months of controversy will be concluded tomorrow afternoon as the representatives of Harvard's alumni meet to decide what will be the University's Memorial for World War II. The official Alumni War Memorial Committee will be in session in its long-awaited decisive meeting...
...suggest for consideration as a substitute is the seminar system, particularly as used at Swarthmore College. I feel that both the tutor's and the student's time would be far better spent in a four hour seminar of ten students than in ten individual one hour tutorial sessions. My experience as an auditor in a graduate seminar here leads me to believe that Harvard generally does not understand the seminar system--it is not just a small lecture where the auditors sit around a table. At Swarthmore, students who are taking a well-conducted seminar...
...believe that communist expansion would halt on the far side of Czechoslovakia. Today those heads are wagging wisely up and down in a chorus of I-told-you-sos. Similarly, the skeptics have long been doubting the ability of the United Nations to become more than an international bull session that discusses, investigates, and concludes, but never acts. They have suspected that the United States' commercial interests would undermine its interests in justice and in the United Nations, and today these skeptics can point to Flushing Meadows and say that they have been proven right...
Speakers at the University rally will be Major Aubrey S. Eban, liaison officer to the UN Palestine Commission coming direct from yesterday's Security Council session, and David Hunter of the Christian Education Department of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts...