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...requirements will gradually affect the general examinations over the next two or three years, White said. He added that next year's seniors (the class of '58) will be required to take only the senior seminar. Members of '59 will have to take both the seminar and the methods course...
...became interested in Etruscan tombs, one of his first steps was to get copies of a photographic air survey that Britain's Royal Air Force made of southern Etruria during World War II. Studied carefully, the photos often show hundreds of shadowy circles. These are Etruscan tombs, which affect slightly the fertility of the soil and therefore the darkness of the chlorophyll in green plants growing on the surface. When air photos are taken after a light snowfall, the tombs often show up as snowy patches surrounded by dark ground where the snow has melted...
...Mayor Edward J. Sullivan's manipulations with the Cambridge School Committee did not affect the city's educational system, they might be humorously reminiscent of the type of enlightened city government which used to rule around the turn of the century. It is somewhat entertaining to observe the machinations by which legal procedure can be circumvented or strategically misused in order to make desired appointments...
...secured a temporary injunction against the Committee, which forbade it to notify the appointees or to appropriate any funds toward their salaries. The injunction is still in force and will be until a trial is held to determine whether the injunction should be permanent. The injunction had an ill-affect on two schools, since two appointments were for hockey coaches for high schools which had games the next weekend. Mayor Sullivan and his brother, John, however, opportunely stepped in and agreed to act as coaches. The two were smilingly pictured in Boston papers as they awkwardly fondled hockey sticks, although...
...will stretch ourselves to accept as many qualified applicants as possible," Bender asserted. This will not affect the number of students the University will admit by its customary admissions policies, he continued...