Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter how hard the ROTC tugs at its intellectual bootstraps, the necessity of teaching the trade of WAR will keep it on a plane below the liberal arts. Since four of an ROTC student's seventeen required courses are of this interior type, his education is worth less than that of his civilian fellow. Harvard can better the ROTC man's education by cutting the credit he receives for his military work...
...with this reduction comes th problem of parcelling out the remain credit. If each year's work it worth half a credit, the student when the ROTC drops after two years will find himself forced into five regular courses for one of his last two years And full credit recognition for only the last two years would hold ever more of the same danger. The best plan would give a full credit for eacl of the first two years with the provision that any student voluntarily quitting the program in either year must take an extra course...
...have just read your Feb. 9 article about the Texas airport dispute. Please in the future refrain from using the words Dallas and Fort Worth in the same article. It has been my pleasure to live in both cities and I can honestly state that Dallas is just a mass of brick and concrete compared with the beautiful city of Fort Worth ... If Dallas should pave Love Field with gold bricks, it would still not have the beauty or value of the Fort Worth airport...
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...Dallas-Fort Worth air war: Isn't [it] all rather childish? Surely some better use could be made of the money which has been and will be wasted in a senseless rivalry...