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After the dinner Mr. Charles W. Duhig, graduate secretary of PBH, spoke about the meaning and value of PBH work. "We all expect something in return for the work we do," Duhig said. "What is the value we receive from social service? We broaden our understanding of people. Success often depends more on this breadth of understanding than on skill...
Perhaps the most helpful nonadministrative group connected with the educative process on the college campus today are the fraternities. By fostering school spirit, extracurricular activities and social functions, they help develop latent qualities of leadership and help broaden students' personalities...
...five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
...science concentrator. The usual requirements amount simply to two years in chemistry and a year each in biology and physics. If they thought more concentration desirable, they would assuredly demand it in their admission requirements. Rather, it is the hope of many committees of admission that the student broaden his education in the humanities and social sciences, leaving the bulk of scientific training to the four-year medical school and the succeeding one- to five-year hospital programs. Today, it is the feeling that too many physicians emerge from their education with little but a high school education...
...time, to the point where it will be within the range of none but the proverbial rich man's son. This is a tendency that makes nobody happy. It is a trend that provides no more pleasure for the administration, whose policy has been to democratize admissions and to broaden the student body of Harvard College, than it does for those non-scholarship students who cannot afford more than they are now paying, or than it does for those students in high-schools throughout the country who will now be forced to abandon the idea of going to Harvard. Absolute...