Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Killian, an old M.I.T. man himself, was taking over one of the foremost technical institutions in the world. It consisted of a student body of 4,500, a faculty of 1,000, and a compact, impressive campus of Roman revival and modern buildings across the Charles River from Boston. M.I.T. had come a long way since its opening classes...
...Killian will be an odd sort of president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support himself as a student, he went to work for the Technology Review, stayed until 1939 when President Karl T. Compton made him his executive assistant. A kindly and laconic man who likes hiking and the novels of George
...tourists who will go to Europe this year. Some will travel in luxury and in style, paying up to $2,340 for first class round-trip passage on the Queens and $1,790 on the America; some will rough it in the "dormitory ships," which carry student tours for as little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France, absent from the Atlantic run for eight years, will not make...
Several Harvard student organizations, including the Student Council, the Liberal Union, and the American Veteran's Committee, as well as the Teachers Union intend to testify today in favor of a pair of General Court bills designed to eliminate unfair practices in education...
...first Harvard student to get to Wellesley on the morning on Sunday, April 24, will be greeted unrestrainedly by a smooth; curavacious, perfectly inflated, and fast moving Schwin bicycle. The only hitch, announced Harvard Outing Club president William Siddall '50, last night, is that the lucky student will have to get there by bicycle in a 10 1/2 mile racing starting at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Ave. and the Worcester Turnpike...