Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Qualified support for a seminar program for gifted Freshmen has come from Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English and a member of the Committee on Educational Policy. Bate stressed the importance of "putting a student on his own as early in college as possible," and said, "it would be foolish not to try some program on a small scale...
Reasons for the delay were the uncertain legal status of the decision and the prevalent feeling that opponents of the proposed ban had not been properly notified of the drive. But Councillor Joseph A. De Gueglielmo '29, picked up strong support from the Cambridge Civic Association and from Councillor Charles Watson, who said he was "inclined to think they're almost all used for gambling...
...University yesterday anounced the receipt of a $285,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to support a research and training program in science and public policy at the Graduate School of Public Administration...
Initiated a year ago, the program will continue through the academic year 1962-63 with the Rockefeller Foundation's support. Next year will be devoted primarily to research by members of the Faculty. Beginning in the autumn of 1960, the program will include training as well...
...novel, although not a very robust one. It is really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none of the roistering profanity of Dedalus' Buck Mulligan. But after a week's timorous escape at a seaside resort, the rebel returns and surrenders to his clucking parent...