Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desires Fewer Special Permits...
...University had also hoped, Whitlock declared, that any new ordinance would "reduce the number of instances in which the University would find it necessary to apply for variances, exceptions and special permits...
Harvard's attitude has traditionally been that "coaches ought to coach," not spend the off-season tracking down promising high school stars. Sometimes the line gets rather slim--when Alumni Schools and Scholarship Committees hold special functions for candidates and coaches, for instance. The most flagrant violations--appointments with a boy's parents, special recruiting at a high school--these have been outlawed at Harvard...
...like the idea of forcing people to take oaths for special reasons," Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, explained yesterday. "Why is it necessary for a student to sign an affidavit just because he is borrowing money?" he asked. The Association's protest also claimed that loyalty oaths will not uncover any person who belongs to a subversive organization, since these individuals "have no scruples about signing such affidavits...
...first History and Lit majors graduated in 1909. During their upperclass years, in addition to taking regular courses, they had done special reading under the direction of Committee members--perhaps the first example of tutorial at Harvard. With no formal courses of its own, History and Lit through the years has remained essentially a tutorial field...