Word: statements
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Announcing the permanent loan of a 19th century dress, Washington's Smithsonian museum casually dropped a small footnote to American history. In its statement, the Smithsonian said that the gown once belonged to Dolley (not Dolly) Madison, wife of the nation's fourth President, justified the spelling by recent research at the University of Chicago on the James Madison papers, proving that the famed White House hostess had indeed used the "e" herself. Among references due for a change: the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which calls her Dorothy, the Encyclopedia Americana, which lists her as Dolly...
...Alec knows from painful personal experience. He began to study it in Marylebone, a lower-middle-class section of West London, where he was born on April 2, 1914. His absence of identity is an official fact; no record of his birth exists. Last week Alec cautiously made a statement on the subject to a TIME correspondent: "My father generated me in his 64th year. He was a bank director. Quite wealthy. His name was Andrew. My mother's name is Agnes. He was a handsome old man, white-haired. A Scotsman. I saw him only four or five...
Neither President Pusey nor the Corporation has made any statement clarifying the "Christian tradition" of the edifice. However, such a statement may be made after the Monday meeting...
...CRIMSON several days ago by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology. The document, which quoted William James in defense of the group's position, asked that Pusey open Memorial Church to all religious denominations and that both Christian and non-Christian services be conducted there. Although the statement is directly concerned only with Memorial Church, a source has revealed that it implies the larger issues of a sectarian university...
...statement of the Committee on General Education concerning mathematical preparation implies that Harvard should also require no specific mathematics requirement for graduation. This closed door policy evoked by the Committee is indeed unfortunate in modern times when an understanding of the present goals of science is intimately tied up with the powerful concept of the calculus--discovered by Newton over 300 years...