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...credit, subject to regular tuition rates, course standards, and run by the various departments. The course, open to both Juniors and Seniors, would meet in discussion groups, and the groups will fall within an individual department. By exceptional work in this course during the Junior year, a student could attain Honors status his Senior year...
Dobrivoje Vidic, in a speech sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council, said that the countries of the world must overcome military blocs, reduce international tension, and promote understandings of different cultures to attain peaceful coexistence, "the essential need of our time--the atomic...
Before election, candidates perform every function that might conceivablyably by expected of them after election as editors. Working under careful and continual guidance, they attain the proficiency necessary to produce what one rival has called "the best college newspaper in the United States...
Third place was the highest position the Crimson track team was able to attain at Saturday night's B.A.A. Games, but the squad produced five such finishes in a generally impressive show of strength and improvement...
...deaf, self-educated Russian schoolteacher, got to thinking about air travel in the 1890s. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, born in 1857, wrote about space flight with amazing prescience. He chose the rocket as the only possible space engine and derived mathematically the speed that its exhaust gases would have to attain. He decided that it should burn liquid fuel. This conclusion he published in 1898, when not even an airplane had left the ground...