Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman Advisers to urge Freshmen to take at least one course in each of the broad areas of learning in their first two years is a move in the right direction. It should help to reduce the number of misfit concentrators; but the average Freshman may still have to make his choice of field prematurely. Harvard has two major responsibilities. It must acquaint the student with the major areas of learning so that he can choose wisely how to concentrate; and second, even if the student's choice is made before he comes to Harvard and he sticks...
...Council's brilliant 1939 Report on Education went to the root of the matter, and suggested drastic remedies. Teachers and administrators may quail at the thought of organizing and staffing five broad "introductory area courses" such as the Council has suggested. And it may run against the grain to make such courses compulsory for all. But no one can ignore the glaring fissure in Harvard's educational structure; such measures as the Board of Freshman Advisers has taken may bridge the gap temporarily, but they will never close...
Cool as genteel cucumbers are the county medical societies which make up the rank & file of the American Medical Association. But hot as a red pepper is the New York County (Manhattan) Medical Society, largest and most powerful in the U. S. Last fall, its members objected to closed conclaves of the officers, clamored for open-meeting discussion of all important business matters. Last week members kicked up another hullabaloo...
...impress upon the belligerents that "this country is seeking not to help one side against the other, not to prepare for the fateful moment when she herself may enter the struggle, not even to remain isolated and remote and uninterested, but every day and in every way to make peace...
...cannibals charged again, but Butch dipped a stick of dynamite at them and that held them back for a while. There was only one more round of ammunition apiece, and it was a thousand miles of green hell to the nearest civilization. Derek muttered. 'They won't make mincemeat out of me while I'm still alive. Cheerio, men.' He walked into the other room and there was a single shot. The cannibals charged again, and then a barrage of shots came from the other end of the clearing. 'Hurray,' shouted Brandy. 'Help has come. Now I'll be able...