Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at Oxford, who has been carefully selected, is guided and advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
Educator Beloff has adequately described the plight of the unfortunate U.S. college student...
Last week, Tenor Rounseville finally got success, of the kind he wanted. With financial help from his home town of Attleboro, Mass., he had worked hard with a teacher, spent the summer of 1948 at Boris Goldovsky's opera school at Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing...
...million, he made internal matters his main concern. He placed the major disciplines-the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts and medicine -under divisional (not merely departmental) directors, reorganized the Sheffield Scientific School, strengthened Yale's Institute of International Studies, and to the horror of many a student, introduced a required reading program for summer vacations...
Fred Wyle '51, HLU member sitting as proxy for a North Carolina delegation, brought up the proposal that student groups should be free from political restrictions. The HLU delegation backed Wyle's proposal vigorously, according to Herbert S. Levine '50, Liberal Union President...