Word: thems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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(3) Whether steps should be taken to encourage alumni to ferret out high-school stars and interest them in Harvard, and whether alumni should give athletic scholarships;
The report will take up freshman advisers, departmental advisers, and tutors, and will seek to shuffle them into a system that helps students more than the current one. "The present machinery doesn't function properly," Bender said.
The group has already come up with several suggestions, but in many cases has found them too costly to be practical. Its final recommendations will go to a full meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for approval.
Distinctly less effective were the lecturing efforts of the Maestro, Singh. His anxiety to establish a theme of cultural relatively led to such interlocutory shockers as "you folks shouldn't be surprised at Indians' wearing pajamas in the daytime when you wear them in the nighttime," and that "through understanding...
Namm, a past-president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, claimed that the text gave students a bad economic education, and "psychological fixations which prejudice them against happiness in their work . . . ."