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This change should force the History concentrator to become more a historical scholar and less a course-taker. For he may have to do considerable outside reading to integrate and supplement the courses he takes. The reduction in the number of questions should enable the student to seek depth of knowledge, while the requirement of a pre-1563-question should maintain sufficient diversity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrong Time for a Change | 2/6/1957 | See Source »

This theater is so far back in the woods the manager is a bear. The audience is so low the ticket-taker is a dwarf to make the people feel at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sullivan's Travels | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

When Stevenson first broached his H-bomb proposal last April, he seemed to be arguing for unilateral U.S. action in halting tests. Last week he was talking about a treaty arrangement-without conditions beyond mutual promise to stop testing H-bombs. He found a ready taker for that sort of arrangement. In the United Nations, Chief Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev said Russia is ready to enter into an agreement for "an immediate halt" to the hydrogen tests-"without conditions." For years, the Russians had been arguing for nuclear disarmament -without conditions. Dwight Eisenhower, and Harry Truman before him, have rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: The H-Bomb Argument | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...poll-taker's error resulted in potentially unfair conditions for balloting yesterday at the Union, as names of voters at the noon meal were not recorded on a freshman class list. The CRIMSON, accordingly, will hold further balloting at noon today for freshmen who voted yesterday at luncheon and were not recorded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 7000 Vote for President in Crimson Poll | 10/25/1956 | See Source »

Fare Game. In Cedarburg, Wis., Escaped Convict Blondon P. Becktell, one of the state's "most-wanted" men, grandly offered $5 to anybody in the tavern who would drive him to Milwaukee, found a taker in Ozaukee County Sheriff Edmund J. Bienlein, unwittingly climbed into the squad car for a ride back to prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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