Word: acquaintances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known if President Conant has come here for the one address or whether he will use next week to re-acquaint himself with the Harvard student body before returning to his post in Washington...
Although one of the central purposes for its original formation in the summer of 1940, to acquaint the public with the menace of the Axis powers and the need for adequate national defense, has ceased to exist, American Defense, Harvard Group, is still carrying on a wide variety of activities with as much zeal as ever...
...have had for many years, which is that the humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the 20th Century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that 20th-century multiplicity may become 20th-century unity." One technique will be to acquaint" students with "the great masters of reality," not politicians, businessmen and economists, but Sophocles, Shakespeare, Isaiah, Dostoevski, St. Paul...
...submitted by the undergraduate War Service Committee contains a number of excellent suggestions for increasing the prestige of the Bureau, its usefulness, and its efficiency. The present policy of the staff, which is limited in numbers and in time, has been to find out the qualifications of the applicant, acquaint him with the opportunities open to him on the basis of his experience and physical shape, and let him make up his own mind as to what he should do. A number of students complained because certain possibilities had not been mentioned to them, but there is no instance...
...river's tidal conditions are unfavorable; 2) the spectators' observation cars have been dismantled; 3) most of the competing crews row on dead water, and their athletic associations, deprived of observation-car revenue, want to avoid the expense of the ten days' training necessary to acquaint their oarsmen with the Hudson's tricky currents...