Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard must stand firm in the coming decade as a bulwark against the grave danger of lowered academic standards," J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...
Harvard cannot stand in magnificent semi-isolation and feel that all secondary schools will prepare their students, no matter how able, for a college education. Dean Monro has pointed out that the relative number of applicants from low-income areas has been decreasing steadily--perhaps due to well-founded fears that they will not be admitted. If Harvard seeks to provide education for those with aptitude and not merely those with good training, liberalization of transfer policies is urgently needed...
Play in the second period followed the same pattern. Crimson attacks managed to turn their few scoring opportunities into goals, but most of the time they could only stand and watch the defense in action at the other end of the field...
...date a left-fielder, Ravenel nevertheless played third at school, and if rain hadn't prevented an outdoor practice yesterday, Ravenel might have been the probable starter there this afternoon. As things stand, it may be any one of the three...
John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, also opposed any exemption from lower level requirements in Humanities and Social Sciences. Although this is a "serious problem," he admitted, "I, of course, stand by the present rules...