Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extent to which the Houses have become the main focus of Harvard life is illustrated by the fact that the Class of '34, the first class to progress completely through the House system, has initiated reunion activities on a House basis as well as the usual class-wide functions. At this time, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first House class, the Houses have become an even more important focus of undergraduate life...
...proficiency and competition of the College. This situation forces many to spend less time in social and extra-curricular activities and more time studying, especially during the freshman year when class spirit might develop. The less time-consuming House activities benefit at the expense of the more taxing college-wide activities. The second factor decreasing the importance of the Class as a unit is the ever-increasing diversity and size of the Harvard undergraduate body. When Harvard College was built on a New England, private-school basis, the student body was more homogenous than it is today. '59 was more...
...brought into being through his gift. Three of the first five Junior Fellows appointed that Spring are now distinguished members of the Harvard Faculty: Professors Birkhoff, Quine, and Skinner. President Church received its more recently position the next year, calling for more fellowships for distinguished scholars. The College-wide concern for scholarship could be seen in the long discussion of "snap" courses, the demand for longer library hours, and more attention to the tutorial system...
Like the Christian Bible, such a book might contain a wide variety of legends, poems, songs of praise, and parables. It would differ from the Christian Bible, however, in that it would be "consonant with modern science...
...cost advantage over multiple BCG punctures in the arm, because it requires far less vaccine. And Dr. Middlebrook believes that his method will interfere less with the standard tuberculin skin test for TB infection. Obscured results in this test have been a major factor in U.S. opposition to wide use of BCG, though the N.T.A. convention heard from Northwestern University's Dr. Guy Youmans last week about a cheap, simple blood test which may reinforce and partly replace the tuberculin test. Most important to Dr. Middlebrook is the simplicity of his proposed airborne vaccination: "It would be easy...