Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first national capital built from scratch since India's New Delhi 30 years ago. Brasilia will not be ready until 1961. But on April 21, 1960. President Juscelino Kubitschek will transfer his government to Brasilia. He wants to rule from there for the last nine months of his term...
Until Friday the committee had been an adjunct of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The transfer to the Executive Office is designed to bring about a closer relationship between the Committee and James R. Killian, Jr., the President's special assistant for science and technology...
Freshman adjustment is made easier by the "We're all in the same sinking boat" feeling of the first year. By the time the transfer arrives, his classmates have already formed patterns and techniques for living their lives at Harvard; he receives relatively little empathy from those around him. The Administration does little to help him, but regards the transfer student as completely absorbed into the student body. Few House staff members are aware of a student's transfer status...
Despite the difficulties of the transfer's life, he seems to benefit from his life at Harvard. Very few transfers fail to do academically well. Overcoming the difficulties involved in transfering requires an exceptional desire to come to Harvard. Once he is here, the transfer is less likely to criticize Harvard than his classmate, who has never attended another university. The transfer has enough perspective to realize the faults inherent in a university life...
...Transfers into Harvard are not very numerous and are therefore not regarded as much of a problem. However, to a large extent, the problem does not exist only because lack of housing prevents it from becoming fully formalized. A more definite transfer admission policy will have to be adopted within the the next few years as more and more students flood the colleges and greater numbers of superior students ask to transfer into Harvard. This increase will become especially noticeable with the coming vast expansion of the junior college system in the United States. Harvard will increasingly be forced...