Word: help
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Administrative leaders of the University will sit at Lowell House's first high table of the year tonight to help celebrate the House's 20th anniversary. To suit the occasion the meal will be served by waitresses, and "on china, not plastic," stated Elliott Perkins, Housemaster and Lecturer on History...
...term exams and grades might help the College grant credit to a student who is drafted before completion of a half-course. But since students are now usually deferred until the end of a tem or academic year, this "cumulative credit" system is not yet believed necessary...
Roger W. Hickman, lecture on Applied Physics and assistant to the provost, represented the University at the Washington meeting. The delegates agreed that the "present purpose of education is to help fulfill the nation's short-range need for technical and military personnel, while at the same time guarding the nation's long-range welfare by continuing to develop leaders in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences...
...well as other well-informed persons in twelve countries of Europe-assured me that if Russia decided to overrun Europe today, it could finish the job within [a week]. About 10% of the people in Europe would help the Russians, and about 80% would remain passive-believing that a fight against the Russians is hopeless under today's odds...
...Truman which skidded onto the scene last week with a screeching of brakes (TIME, Oct. 2). Ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes, whom the President had characterized, according to the book, as a man who ''failed miserably" in his job and "ran out" when the President needed help, had lost no time snapping back. "Hell," said Byrnes, "if he felt that way, why should he have wanted a miserable failure around at any time . . .? My letter of resignation [was tendered] eight months previous. So he says I ran out on him? Well, I'd call that damn...