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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specialized advisory groups, such as the Dean's Office and the Office of Tests Bender says, must not take over all the problems of advising. To abandon the responsibility of the Faculty to advise "would seriously weaken Harvard education," he says, adding that a special committee is studying the whole problem...
...under savage and provocative Russian pressure in Berlin, the U.S. refused to abandon Europe's helpless peoples. With that decision, the U.S. accepted the risk of war. Major General William H. Tunner's airlift blazed a roaring, dramatic demonstration of U.S. determination across Europe's troubled skies. Not only to Berliners but to the world, the Berlin airlift was the symbol of the year: the U.S. meant business...
...abandon Communism, however, and returned to New York. He had met and married a young labor organizer and painter named Esther Shemitz. They set up housekeeping in a poverty-stricken tenement on the East Side...
...seems unlikely that these reasons alone are enough to lead the Radcliffe Deans to abandon separate exams. If they feel that the honor system in exams is a failure, they should come out and say so. If they merely feel that it would be easier to combine with Harvard, they should take heed of the Radcliffe vote before they make a final decision...
...simplification is unwarranted. Even in the best House Dining Halls, the food is not good, though the students are not driven to complaints by its inadequacies. In addition, the University has sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in the central kitchen and now cannot be expected blithely to abandon it as a poor idea. The quality of Dining Hall food in the five Houses attached to the central kitchen does not require poor meals. It may never rise to Locke Obercan heights, but like University food everywhere, it may definitely be improved...