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...many still were anxious to influence as many undergraduates as possible to attend chapel services even if requirements were to be lifted. A plan was proposed whereby chapel would be an unprepared elective in order to increase its appeal. In opposing this idea one person sarcastically wrote, "Only those studious minded young men who go to college for work or are conscientiously opposed to set times for prayer would be likely to choose mathematics or German instead of prayers; and these probably have least need of the prayers . . . no preparation at all is required for prayers and it therefore will...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Religion at Harvard: To Teach or Preach? | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Scot in the Sixth Grade | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Frederick L. Nyhan, deputy of the Massachusetts Selective Service Board, indicated yesterday that studious undergraduates need not worry about the draft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1954 Draft Call May Not Bother College Students | 1/8/1954 | See Source »

...faculty, according to one department director, makes periodic attempts to "develop a more studious atmosphere." But the Core system, which is the apple of Colgate's academic eye, and is like an intensive composite of Harvard's General Education program combined with the preceding Rules of Distribution precludes the picayune study that is the basis for intense scholarship Rather, most courses at Colgate are of the survey variety, aimed at a smattering of culture in many times and lands...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Colgate: Solid Businessmen of the Next Decade | 10/10/1953 | See Source »

...right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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