Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisive solution . . . Korea has lasted for ten months, but the Berlin crisis lasted almost 15 months and was a very daring undertaking . . . There were times when [it] also looked like a stalemate, but we ... won a notable victory . . . There were many that advocated that we breach the Russian setup, and go through their territory with an armed convoy. We didn't do that . . . Undoubtedly [that] would have promoted a general conflict . . . The effort to free
Such an expanded tutorial setup was advocated in the report of the Bender Committee on advising. The committee also proposed de-centralizing the Dean's Office by transferring some of its functions to the Houses in the form of House Deans...
...Overseer's Visiting Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, and the revitalization of the Alumni's Schools Committees. Twenty-two winter speeches at sundry affairs by football coach Lloyd Jordan, and the weekly Harvard Club-sponsored visits of prospective students to Cambridge also follow in the new setup...
Fourth, the committee recommended a shakeup in the admissions department to attract a better student body to the College. But her too there are dangerous provisions. The committee wants the "alumni representative in this new setup. . . (to) be in general control of all recruiting work," and it believes that "the so-called 'all-around boy' is what Harvard wants most." With alumni in charge of the recruiting, beating the bushes for "all-around boys," there would be a great danger of the College's following admission policies unbalanced in favor of athletes. Harvard is a scholastic institution, and that must...
...expected that the new setup will greatly ease the 'Cliffe publicity situation...