Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...People who last fall were denouncing "that madman in the White House who is trying to get us into war" were now impatient with merely feeding & clothing the Finns. "Bullets, not butter," was their...
...Redmon at 128, Bill Tyng at 155 and Aldrich at 175 were all beaten in the first round matches, Aldrich going by the fall route. Tudor Gardiner beat Dick Bokum of Princeton in his first encounter but fell before Larry Pickett of the Elis in the next bout...
Profits from the Student Union Dramatic Club production of "Waiting for Lefty" and "The Fall of the City" will also be added to the fund. Contacts will be made today with the Sailors. Garment-Workers, Waitress, and Taxi-Drivers unions in an effort to sell blocks of tickets to the play...
...trans-departmental area field of Social Science submitted the fruit of its labor for consideration by the Faculty. The committee had worked fast so that, if the Faculty approved, 25 members of the class of 1943 could start out concentrating in the new experimental field next fall. But the last three Faculty meetings have been attended by a mere handful of loyal souls, far too few for a quorum. As a result the report has not been voted on, and now that the Faculty has adjourned for a month, it seems certain that not until the fall...
Skimpy attendance at Faculty meetings is an old complaint. It was to remedy this that the Faculty Council, an elected representative body, was set up a few years back. Last fall, when the tenure controversy raged and the interests of Harvard teachers were directly involved, attendance zoomed; at one session nearly 300 Faculty members attended the largest meeting in Harvard history. Encouraged by the big turn-outs, the Faculty voted to suspend the Faculty Council for a year and to resume regular full Faculty meetings. But now the fever has subsided, mid-winter apathy has set in, and on alternate...