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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfairness shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...
...women from all parts of the country, as well as Harvard students, will attend the eight weeks' semester. Undergraduates on the school roster will be able to complete two half courses or the equivalent of one-half term's work...
Davenport plans to finish the whole thing this term. Then the press will hold another field day, and the public will finally get into the grey, windowless building on Oxford Street. What they'll see will be the biggest machine in the University push the smallest thing in the Universe at the fastest speed made...
Other criticisms of the bill hit the "generality" of the term atheism, and claimed that, if the bill becomes law, educational institutions will be unable to hire anyone "left...
Three high officials in the State Department will fly to Harvard today for the term's seventh Career Conference, which will analyze vocations in Government and Foreign Service at 8 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...