Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe students do not register for the spring term but must file their study cards before Feb. 10. The deadline for College study cards is also...
Four new courses, including two in Economics, will be offered during the spring term. All these courses will begin tomorrow...
Although the opening of this Spring Term lacks the authentic atmosphere of its namesake season, there is a certain amount of encouragement in the blanket of snow that has settled upon Cambridge. Tramping to Registration at Memorial Hall may be less romantic than skiing, but at least the march will end with multicolored forms and not the overly-familiar bluebooks. It is even rumored that the delay of the snowfall until after the last exam has a mystical significance. Vermont's official groundhog watcher, for example, reports that yesterday's belated winter assures a fair spring...
Unchanging as always, however, is that Word of Cheer passed from one friend to the other before the grip of schedule and test tightens again. Although the snow may have at first frightened the Spring Term optimist, awakened like the Freshman who has overslept an exam, he is now reassured and ready to pass along advice. The new term does, in fact, promise more than the resulting slush and returned exams. If all goes well, there will be as many disarmament plans as there are new atomic weapons, and Marlon Brando will not sell his motorcycle. In all events...
Another chapter in the Furry-Kamin saga was being written as the term ended. Cited for contempt of Congress, both Wendell H. Furry and Leon J. Kamin '49 pleaded not guilty to a total of 16 charges and will face a long court battle this spring. Members of the Physics and Social Relations Departments immediately started funds for the defense of the pair...