Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That being so, Historian Pusey set out to establish a curriculum based on the search for first principles. "The best teacher," said he. "is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else." Today, Lawrence students read widely in the great books, starting right out with a Pusey-designed freshman-studies course that is concerned with the great ideas of civilization...
...Council also suggested that the College establish orientation programs for foreign students who enter directly from their native countries, and that it may offer advisory assistance for those who request...
Egypt pulled back its best division from Gaza on the Israeli border, where it might be cut off, and sent soldiers to establish roadblocks on Cairo-to-Suez highways. Egyptian staff officers pored over studies of the 1951-52 fighting to make sure that they wouldn't make the same mistakes. The government restricted sales of supplies to the British garrison (Tommies feared for their three-bottles-a-day quota of Stella beer...
...quite a birthday present: $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller III to establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
...solution to the problem here, players feel, is for the College to establish a "loan-lease" arrangement with a closer course than Dedham-perhaps the Winchester Country Club would proves to be the solution to this problem...