Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent gift of Procter and Gamble to Harvard is of special significance to the United States, to Harvard, and to that mammoth endeavor of our time, the Program for Harvard College. It represents the growing awareness of private industrial concerns that their own welfare--and the country's--can be best served by donating money to private universities to carry on their educational projects...
...study with a tutor. This had always been a fundamental principle of the Honors program at Harvard, but had not always been practiced as such. The program for non-Honors students--those who fail the Sophomore and/or Junior test--was not quite so laudable: the Committee at first recommended special courses for non-Honors students, apparently somewhat pragmatically oriented. This feature was excised after a full Faculty discussion, and the non-Honors program remained but a plea for tutorial for non-Honors Seniors in the Houses (not now offered...
...unrestricted gift of $100,000 to the Program for Harvard College--distributed equally over a five-year period--has made possible the establishment of a special Honors Program Fund, President Pusey announced this week...
About a brand of special knowledge
Around a T-shaped table in the office of Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, 25 representatives of 15 major oil companies met last week to demothball a tool left over from Suez. The oilmen were the backbone of the Foreign Petroleum Supply Committee, whose members formed a special committee to keep Europe's oil flowing in 1956 during the Suez crisis. Present purpose: to keep oil coming in case the fields in Iraq-or any other Arab land-should be suddenly shut down. Said Seaton: "We must be prepared to move, and move quickly...