Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out what is the product of the four years in the Harvard community, the surveyors will use a method similar to that developed by the committee which produced the "Poskanzer Report" on Harvard education last year. Subjective interviews and questionnaires will be designed to discover "changes in the student's values induced by his living in the Harvard community." They will gather opinions on academic and extra-curricular activities and on personal matters of ideals and ethics...
Winthrop and Adams have boasted TV since last year, while Lowell installed its set four weeks ago. But Winthrop and Adams have discovered that television spoils their common rooms for any other use...
...Navy does not consider presence at an AYD folk dance as potential evidence of subversive activity, why does it ask about participation in these functions? And even if the Navy could use such evidence to prove subversiveness, the asking has a serious deterrent effect far outweighing its value as providing information. 2.) Even if we could be sure that the lists of "subversive" organizations, made up without due process, are entirely accurate, we cannot accept the premise that members of subversive organizations are ipso facto subversive themselves. Obviously there can be more than the two reasons mentioned for remaining...
...sell & leaseback" deal was doubly advantageous. Yale would get a fairly sure tax-exempt income of 5.3% on its investment. Macy's would get its $4,500,000 out of dead brick & mortar into lively working capital, still have the use of the building. Since the rent is taxexempt, it is probably lower than Macy's would have to pay to a taxpaying owner...
...million Clinical Health Center. He has just completed the $3.8 million Du Pont Circle underpass. On the White House job, he has to contract to complete it in 660 calendar days. He feels sure he can do it, though he won't have room to use more than 300 workers at a time. His big worry: dodging the souvenir hunters...