Word: student
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student engineer was called off to World War I as a private. At the front, he decorated his dugout with flowered wallpaper, draperies and tufted pillows. He designed himself a new pair of pants because the government-issue pants were badly cut ("I enjoyed going into action well-dressed"). After four years of war−during which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still...
...book, divided into four sections, will deal with general college life, academic departments, clubs, and classes. Student groups have agreed to help finance club sections and to assist staff members in compiling material. The student curricular committee will handle the academic departments division...
...ticket demand was explained by Athletic Association director W. Henry Johnson, who said, "The Harvard-Holy Cross game, more than any other game on our schedule, depends on the previous records of the teams for audience appeal." Johnson's statement has been borne out by the lack of student and general public enthusiasm...
Prospective methods to decentrate Harvard learning from the lecture halls and infuse it into the student's daily activities include, among other things, more concentration meetings and the organization of pre-exam discussion groups...
...Council committee's plan paralled that of a faculty committee now existing under Dean Bender which is considering the return of education to the House level. The Council committee apparently feels the same as the faculty, that opportunities for the student in the large University to have personal contact with other students and with his teachers have been greatly reduced by cuts in tutorial and crowded conditions...