Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current planning ideas, the eighth House will incorporate Mather Hall, now a part of Leverett House, into its structure. It is not certain at present exactly how this will be accomplished. To enable Leverett House to maintain its present population the University will probably build another such "annex" type hall running along the south side of Grant Street, to the east of McKinlock Hall, the central part of Leverett House...
...Brilliant students can be ruined by a police-type exam given in great detail because of the grading system"--Paul H. Buck, former dean of the Faculty...
...acted upon, the proposal would permit a student to write a thesis approximately as long as an article in a scholarly journal instead of the much longer type of essay required at present...
Grades, courses, and the other IBM-directed trivia of Harvard education actually inhibit a third type of student, the individual whose desire to study some problem deeply is thwarted by the feeling that he must make high marks in all courses, for the sake of the Scholarship Committee, or for a graduate school, or for his parents...
...tolerance of fresh-water fish for salt, the effect of light on the fighting mood of chameleons, and ways to induce toads to lay their eggs out of season. One boy, having noticed that some dead fish do not pollute the water in tanks that contain a certain type of algae, now thinks he is on the road to a discovery. "I know there is an antibiotic property in the algae," says he. "My next job is to isolate...