Word: von
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class as a meaningful unit. The Class of '59 marked yet another turning point in the history of Harvard Classes. It became immortalized by being the last class to hold a Freshman Smoker. Although special precautions were made, '59's Smoker proved too hectic for University Hall. As Dean Von Stade tersely reported to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "As the class increased in size after the war, the Smoker was moved to Sanders and became something far too close to a Bacchanalia for anyone's comfort. Attempts were made, over the past few years...
...Hollywood the U.S.'s No. 1 rocketeer, German-born Wernher von Braun, cast a scientific eye on Cinemactor Curt Jurgens, showed German-born JÜrgens a replica of the nose cone of the Army's Pioneer III lunar probe, which soared more than a third of the way to the moon last December. Then the pair chatted amiably about JÜrgens' role as Von Braun in a film biography to be titled / Aim at the Stars...
WEST GERMANY: Both German delegations were sitting in a strictly advisory capacity, and Bonn's Foreign Minister von Brentano would not even flatter the East Germans by his presence...
...slight modification of Bruner's proposal, Von Stade suggested a linking of the Advanced Placement Program with the seminar program. Freshmen should have several opportunities throughout the year to enter the seminar program, he said, and one of these opportunities should occur at the beginning of the year. He recommended that Freshmen be chosen for immediate entrance on the basis of Advanced Placement Examinations and that others "filter in" as evidence of their capabilities is shown...
Some students need "real incentive to get their teeth into course work," von Stade continued. Nothing that 11 of the 15 Freshman in Group 1 at the end of the first semester had not received Advanced Placement in any course, he suggested that Bruner's seminar program might be offered as a reward for achievement...