Word: used
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, of course, was that non-concentrators found it difficult if not impossible to get into the course, and the responsibility for this situation is conspicuously the English Department's, and not Professor Brower's. But justice demands that the use of English concentration as a criterion for admission should cease, whether or not it will cause some slight damage to those English students who are excluded...
...English Department's use of Hum 6 is a combination of convenience (for it is thus unnecessary to give courses in criticism for potential concentrators) and salesmanship, since English is a more attractive major when one does not have to "waste" a year on General Education. In reality, however, this policy perverts the fundamental philosophy of General Education and works considerable hardships on non-concentrators...
...totality though, persons should remove their glasses or even use binoculars to see the full brilliance of the corona. Menzel said the eclipse can easily be photographed with an ordinary camera at f/6.3 at 1/25th, warning that most persons "overexpose these things badly...
Other recommendations concerned the establishment of better relations between students at the college and New Haven residents. "City police should not use clubs on students or enter student rooms except to stop crime," the commission urged, and particular care should be taken in choosing the policemen who make foot patrols in the university area. In addition, clearer distinction should be made between the jurisdiction of the city police and that of the campus...
...most significant aspect of this exchange of visits is the emergence of two-power personal diplomacy, not as a panacea, but as a reasonable method of exchanging views and "reducing tensions," to use a favorite Khrushchev phrase. The concept of the Big Two sitting at a table deciding the fate of smaller nations may not sit well in anti-monopolistic American stomachs, but it is more than reasonable to assume that any Eisenhower-Khrushchev agreement would exert a rather compelling influence on other, lesser powers...