Word: shrivenham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Cecil Howard Lander, 68, British engineer who helped develop jet propulsion and Fido (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation), a device used in World War II to clear fogbound airports; of a heart attack, in Shrivenham, England...
Otherwise last week's opening of the Army's University Center No. 1 at Shrivenham, England was little different from any first day on a U.S. college campus...
Kenneth Olson, dean of Northwestern University's school of journalism, planned to set up a model city room and have his students publish a daily Shrivenham Post on local newspaper presses. Dr. Douglas Whitaker, Stanford zoologist, created a minor Army supply problem by ordering 1,000 frogs. Among others...
Programs & Credits. Shrivenham's students are enrolled for eight weeks, a term approximating a summer session in the U.S. Ten percent of them are to be officers, 10% Negroes. The average program includes three hours of classwork a day, five days a week, and two hours of compulsory sports a week. Regular classwork will be supplemented with field trips and with lectures by visiting professors...
...university at Shrivenham will be one of three such schools for servicemen and women temporarily stranded in Europe. One opened last month in Florence, and another gets under way this month in Biarritz. (A similar school for technical students only will open at Wharton, near Liverpool, next month.) None of them has been officially accredited by U.S. associations, but students will receive certificates recommending credit in U.S. colleges...
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