Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many courses in the University have a limited enrollment and must turn away a large number of students. The disappointed applicants may not be able to audit the course, and thus may miss it entirely. But they can attend a series of public lectures, especially if they are held in the late afternoon or evening when classes are not in session. Last year, for instance, Richard Poirier's afternoon lectures in conjunction with Comp. Lit 166 were very well attended...
...surprised at this turn of events. The fact that China's revolution occurred later, its doctrinaire line and insistence on "communes," and the traditional fear of Russian expansion into China--these factors will continue to create friction between the two powers regardless of what happens to India and to the Russian disarmament proposal...
...Gaulle evidently is calling the turn on timing. He also apparently is going to get his way about putting off until sometime next spring a subsequent East-West summit conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...representing the progressive, intellectual elements within the city, has played this linking role of political savvy with moral concern so important to the University. Because of its influence, no threats to turn the Yard into a parking lot or to run the proposed belt highway by Thayer Hall have carried much weight...
...Committee, the CCA hopes to prevent the "family night raids" on the integrity of the system, as took place in 1957. The School Committee campaign has basically the same philosophy motivating it as does the Council--an elimination of what the CCA considers bad influences on good government. In turn, this CCA philosophy finds its roots in the overall tone the University attempts to create within the community...