Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the approach of autumn, Buenos Aires' good airs cleared perceptibly. The distant thunder that had muttered ominously through Argentina's hot political summer rumbled no more. Businessmen who called on cabinet ministers last week noted a new air of confidence...
...reason given by the Administration for this policy is a practical one--the difficulty of making sure that all work credited toward a Harvard degree is up to Harvard standards. If the College were to approve only those summer schools with acceptable standards, other institutions would feel that they were being discriminated against. To be fair, the Administration would have to keep continually informed about every summer school in the country, a task that is clearly, impossible. In the face of these difficulties, the College finds it best to grant no credit...
Nevertheless, the College grants transfer credit, under certain restrictions, for work done at other colleges during the regular academic year. Such a system might well be extended to include summer study. Students would apply through the College departments for permission to take specific courses for credit at other summer schools. Each department would approve only those courses which were adaptable to the individual student's program. The system would draw upon Faculty members' familiarity with the quality of instruction in their fields at other institutions, and at the same time relieve University Hall of the responsibility of giving blanket approvals...
Until some such plan is adopted, the present polley will remain an unreasonable restriction on undergraduates. By extending the College's facilities to include high-grade courses at other summer schools, the potentialities of a Harvard education can be greatly increased...
...Huntington, regular second baseman last year, will be out for the season with a broken right collar bone suffered in the last Dartmouth hockey game; and left fielder Jim Kenary, who played against Yale last spring, is still unable to throw overhand because of a shoulder injury sustained last Summer. Add in the fact that Chip Gannon isn't playing this spring and you have two-thirds of the outfield wide open as well as the third base position. Gannon, a center fielder, won the Wingate Memorial Cup last year as the team's most valuable player...