Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house of worship; this could be taken for granted from the fact that it directly replaced the old Appleton Chapel which had a strongly Protestant tradition. But the church would have no affiliation with any one Protestant denomination. "The fund for the Chapel," said the Overseers, "shall be solicited upon the express condition that the chapel shall be held as an undenominational trust...
Permission was granted by the Radcliffe Administrative Review Board, a committee which must pass upon merger recommendations, for Harvard Yearbook Publications to publish the Radcliffe Yearbook and Freshman Register next year. The new yearbook for Radcliffe will be expanded in length and will have the same format as the Harvard book, with some of the same features...
...delegation of prominent faculty members presented a petition yesterday afternoon to President Pusey in his Massachusetts Hall office. The group was in Pusey's office for nearly an hour, and upon leaving would not divulge the exact nature of either their conversation or their petition to the President...
Professors, moreover, are somewhat uncomfortable when called upon to defend this rite of Spring whereby graders are generally anonymous, grades frequently secret, and theses oftimes hidden. One traditional explanation is proferred by several uneasy English professors who recall that once upon a time an undergraduate grabbed one of their colleagues by the lapels and demanded some sort of satisfaction for an obvious injustice. Each department has a favorite explanation of its own, but professors are usually agreed that the necessity of having to explain, or even defend, a grade is an upsetting procedure...
Usually, just how much a senior learns about his thesis depends upon whether or not his tutor considers the secrecy ridiculous. Unfortunately, comparatively few faculty members are willing to admit that the present system is generally unwise and inconsistent. Even fewer are willing to do anything about the situation...