Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eliot felt, as many educators feel today, that students were too old upon finishing their education. To meet the problem he initiated an "anticipating system," under which qualified incoming students could take special examinations. If they passed, three of the five freshman courses could be dropped. Such a measure yielded only minute relief. Students still had to accelerate their own four-year programs into three, and enroll in summer school courses to receive an early degree...
President Pusey has announced the appointment of John P. Chase, president of John P. Chase, Inc., Boston investment counsel, as chairman of the Greater Boston Special Gifts Committee of A Program for Harvard College...
Kielbasa & 39? Steak. Most plants try to avoid repeating menus more than once every two or three weeks, pay attention to workers' preferences, and have extras for special occasions. Cleveland's Thompson Products has a steak dinner ($1.50) every payday; Chrysler has kielbasa for workers of Polish descent. Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Co. has imported Swiss, German and Austrian chefs, encourages recipes from employees. Average check at Heinz: 33? for production-line workers (who often bring part of their lunch from home), 53? for executives and white-collar workers...
...dedicated bores, Miller remains a fascinating character. He is rather proud to find himself an institution of sorts-the No. 1 U.S. Bohemian. One of the most appealing things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village's Harvardman Joe Gould compiled his 10 million-word Oral History of Our Time...
Having released his special demons of Caesarism, De Riencourt in a kind of guilty afterthought tries to pour the jinn back into the bottle and mix with the tonic of a higher historical synthesis: he lamely concludes that there are "ways and means of reviving our moribund Culture while retaining all the good and necessary features of Civilization...