Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt the crew member feels something akin to the skier's togetherness, knowing that he is huddled in the warm confines of the boathouse, that so long as the Charles flows there will always be a Harvard crew, and that when the shells again take to the river next spring, people will stand on the banks in the sunlight and cheer...
...characterized the mistake as "the result of a young organization's learning how to take care of itself," and added that "everyone working for the H.S.A. has benefited from it and wants to continue working...
Harvard is behind because it never kept up. "We did not take advantages of the lessons learnt in World War II," Frohock says, "while such colleges as Cornell, Wesleyan, and Princeton did." Cornell, for instance, has an ambitious new program of language teaching which it started experimentation on as early as 1946. The question then must be: why did Harvard allow itself to become stagnated in an ivy-encrusted system first instituted by some English private school headmaster when it became evident that there were quicker and more efficient ways of learning a language...
...truth is that he is right. If the student has already passed his language requirement, then of course, he has no problem. He can either drop languages altogether and take up applied nuclear physics or instead, if he is interested...
...still, above all, a country dedicated to "the ideals of '76," still the land of opportunity for the downtrodden of Europe. These words have a distinctly embarrassing ring in the ears of many Americans; and it is an interesting comment on the U.S. today that foreigners should take them more seriously than...