Word: adds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Africa and the Middle East to add a foreign relations touch to his image...
...activity in the educational process." Last week this statement by able Dean of Admissions Eugene S. Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson had a fairly startling suggestion: add an English essay question to C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple-choice questions, the famed "College Boards...
...School requires its seniors to spend one term either as a Conference leader, or as a member of a senior seminar. These seminars add a further element of unity to the program. This fall, for example, an editor of the Reporter Magazine has discussed from a journalist's point of view, the "Substructures of Government"--such as the Press and Congressional Committees. An-other seminar concerns Problems of Modern Germany...
Dining hall officials, according to Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, feel that undergraduate patronage might add to the present crowding caused by recent revisions in the Commons serving system. The cost of meals per student in the House dining halls, moreover, is raised when there are fewer students eating lunch there...
...Voiceless Trees. Awakening to the fact that next year's Olympic Games will add another 100,000 agile foreigners to the daily traffic scrimmage, Rome's city hall decreed its biggest postwar street construction program: four huge underpasses, hopefully scheduled for completion by next July. Clearing the way for the underpasses, workmen chopped down hundreds of towering trees along the banks of the Tiber and on the fringes of Rome's biggest park, the Villa Borghese...