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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman fired Dr. Parran from his top job (he remains in the PHS) without even the usual polite little note of farewell. Washington speculated on the reason. Federal Security Boss Oscar R. Ewing, whose agency controls PHS, explained that Dr. Parran's re-appointment for another four-year term (his fourth) would have made his tenure too long.* Politicians suspected that Parran, who had been New York health commissioner under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, was just one more New Dealer dealt out. Medical experts thought that Parran's leaving, among other things, represented a shift in emphasis: perhaps...
Over 150 graduate and undergraduate courses, to be given by a University faculty and "prominent educators from other schools," are planned for the coming eight-week term, George W. Adams, director of the summer school, announced yesterday. The semester opens June 28, with students allowed a maximum of two half-courses...
Past summer schools have been made up of a majority of older men and women, out of college, who 'return to school to take Harvard courses for the first time," Adams stated. "However, this term, we expect the great preponderance to be students of the University, especially veterans, who want either to accelerate or to make up failed courses...
...country. Yesterday a younger organization than Harvard College, and one consequently less burdened by the last three hundred years, tactfully approached this matter. The organization was the Radcliffe Student Council, and its idea was that some sort of marriage course for Radcliffe girls should be instituted in the fall term. Yale has already stopped into the twentieth century and acknowledged the existence of sex. If Radcliffe makes the same move unilaterally, Harvard will become something of a lone puritanical ostrich, with its head buried in the past. Call it "Marriage," as the Radcliffe Student Council does, or call...
Marriage lectures and discussion groups will be included in the Radcliffe curriculum next term if a proposal entertained at yesterday's session of the 'Cliffe Student Council goes into effect. Investigation of the suggested series was left to a committee including Drs. Veronica B. Tisza and Dorothy G. McLead, college physicians, and several Council members...