Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tutors are young instructors who in normal times must worry about their Ph.D.'s, and to whom the draft boards now beckon. The only way to keep the tutorial system off the war-time casualty list is to expand it to include more teachers, especially those in the upper brackets...
...panacea nor even a proper substitute for the old plan, might well be expanded into a full wartime tutorial system. The possibilities of this will be discussed later. Right now it is essential that some arrangement be drawn up to permit the universal continuation of tutorial for the three upper classes, or else the Harvard tradition of liberal education will be in jeopardy...
Burma is a land of three rivers: the long, motherly Irrawaddy in the west ; the tired, gentle Sittang in the center; the wild Salween in the east. They rise in the northern hills, where God lives. They all run southward, through Upper Burma to the rice fields of the south, and then into the Gulf of Martaban and the Bay of Bengal...
...mere existence of a fighting force in upper Burma is invaluable to the defense of India. If they have an active enemy in their rear, the Japanese cannot complacently advance on India...
...Professor Copeland's earnest request, in view of President Conant's address and only less important meetings soon to follow, his Bible Reading, scheduled for tomorrow night in the upper common room of the Union, has been indefinitely postponed...