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Despite the reduction in concentration requirements, Harvard graduates will not suffer in comparison with those from other colleges, the Department says, since the college has always set standards well beyond those needed to win approval from the American chemical Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chemistry | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...confidence that marked its opening years, and said that while "on the whole I remain an optimist," mankind's failure to keep up with scientific progress has subjected it to terrible dangers. "The scale of events around (man) assumed gigantic proportions while he remained about the same size. By comparison therefore he actually became much smaller. . . . The need was to discipline an array of gigantic and turbulent facts. To this task we have certainly so far proved unequal...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Churchill Warns of Russian Plans in MIT Talk | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

...various foreign countries and the present rate if the money is purchased in the United States. Foreign currencies can be purchased at the Harvard Trust at the going U. S. market rate. Downing will be glad to help students planning a summer abroad work out their monetary exchange problems. Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Going Abroad? Beware of Money Mixups and Currency Regulations | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

Tony Bonner's music was the high spot of the show in the composing department. With imagination, variety, and a beautiful sense of timing and color, Bonner has woven a scorer which should stand comparison with the best of Pudding music. His orchestration is brassy where it should be, and borrows a bare minimum from the all-too-familiar body of Latin American songs on the market...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: "Tomorrow Is Manana" | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

...Gooks" seemed a better job than Dennis Fodor's dialogue story. The former is a fine study of its three soldier principals, with restrained dialogue and subtle development; the latter is too glib, too flashy in dialogue without the insights and basings necessary for a competent story. This comparison is not intentional nor malicious, but successive reading of the two stories brings out rather sharply that what is good in one is the chief failing of the other...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: On the Shelf | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

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