Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second roadblock was thrown up during the maneuvering over Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright's Community Facilities Bill to provide long-term (50 years) public-works loans to small cities with low credit ratings. Fortnight ago, Republicans on Fulbright's Banking and Currency Committee (joined by Democrats Paul Douglas of Illinois, Allen Frear Jr. of Delaware and Willis Robertson of Virginia) trimmed the bill's total from $2 billion to $1 billion, upped the proposed interest rate from...
...national student organizations of the United States and Poland have arranged a long-term academic exchange program for 1958-59, Bruce D. Larkin, International Affairs Vice President of the National Students Association, revealed yesterday...
...This is the first long-term exchange of students negotiated between the student associations in the United States and Poland," Larkin said. He planned the program with ZSP President Stefan Olsowski earlier this month at a meeting of the Union Nationale des Etudiants de France in Marseilles...
...appointment of Professor Henry C. Darby as a visiting professor of Geography for the Spring term of 1959 is a long-needed step in the right direction. However, the appointment of only one Professor of Geography will not suffice; it is distressing to note that Harvard is the only major American or European university without a geography department...
...office: "In the first few weeks of the freshman year we encourage them to give college a try; as the year goes on we tend to be more and more lenient. However, if they get along until December or April, we try to urge them to salvage their term." The problem in the freshman year, however, is not particularly great. Only about twenty-five freshmen voluntarily withdraw each year...