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Each student shall be expected to attain grades of at least C or its equivalent in two-thirds of the courses he offers towards his degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College to Credit Harvard Men For Courses in Military Training | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Holmes stated that he considered education a "continuous process having no definite point at which one can attain a general education. It is the philosophic interpretation of scholarship rather than the gaining of specific knowledge that is most important in education." Specialization therefore should not start at any pre-arranged time in one's educational development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLMES TALKS ON LIBERALISM | 9/24/1943 | See Source »

...Responsible participation by. the U.S. in postwar cooperative organization among sovereign nations to prevent military aggression and to attain permanent peace with organized justice in a free world." (Any such action, of course, is to be taken through regular constitutional channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Mackinac | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...higher the civilization, he says, the fewer laws it needs. "The only way to attain justice," says Tutt, "is by doing it ourselves every day-with our own hands-to each other-at home-and in the world outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legal Fiction | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...until Dec. 14, 1943 will World War II attain the age of World War I: four years, three months, 14 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Five Septembers | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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