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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postponed until next fall, the Masters and Department heads can now attempt to resolve conflicting views into the beginnings of a creative policy. The difficulty, in this period when no one knows how the CEP proposals will work out, is in guessing whether or not a given department will use the spring qualifying exam to make honors more restrictive or more inclusive. No one can yet say how many non-Honors juniors there will be in a given field in a certain House...
Students will spend two afternoons a week from late January until May answering phone calls and mail, and doing research on bills and political issues for the legislators. They may possibly represent legislators at public hearings, and will be accorded such privileges as use of House and Senate lobbies...
Thought he admires the synthesis as "an ideal goal," Professor Handlin questions whether it is worth recapturing. The successful synthesis of the Thirties, he says, rested on a "genuine point-of-view." It would not be worthwhile, he feels, to use such devices as breaking up the tutorial lunches to achieve an "artificial unity...
First, though, many roadblocks must be cleared away. "Too many commuters," says Heineman, "use the train only when weather is bad, but drive their own cars to town when the weather is good. Well, if they want a $1,000,000 piece of equipment to be waiting at the station for them every day, they had better pay for it every day." The Heineman plan aims to turn the fair-weather riders into faithful, fulltime riders. To do it, the North Western more than doubled prices of one-way tickets for close-in riders, thus making it costly...
...Wood to care for. Last week, Holy Cow, grown to a 925-lb. steer, won the grand championship in the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. Wood collected $1,010 in prize money, plus $23,125 from Restaurant Owner Howard Johnson Jr. who bought the steer at auction and will use it to promote his roadside chain...