Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February discussion of various possibilities for a War Memorial "utilitarian" choices included a Hygiene Center and an Arts Center as well as the majority-approved Activities Center...
More than a year of study preceded the decision, von Stade said. National Scholarship policy has followed those lines in the past, and the new committee decision was based on the hope that its complete application would reduce "grade chasing," equalize the difficulty of various courses, and make allowances for outside work and extra-curricular activities...
...intention of the Scholarship Committee to place less value on scholastic accomplishment," stated von Stade. "Rather, we hope to consider some students who have for various reasons been unable to produce work of honors calibre...
...various machinations of this Maxwell Anderson stage play are natural fodder for the generation of the quality called suspense, and Director John Huston has made the most of it. Yet Huston suspense has a unique moral overtone. At the same time people are chewing their nails wondering what will happen next, they are also wondering whether an essentially idealistic man can stay hopelessly pessimistic and inactive when he is brought face to face with the personification of evil. The peculiarity of it all is that Huston's moralizing does not impair a mote, mite, or job the entertainment value...
High points, Smith thought, will come Monday afternoon, in the workshop discussions of various parts of the UNESCO program, and on Tuesday afternoon, in the plonary session's consideration of major policy questions...