Word: program
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will give a program of readings before a group of Freshmen tonight in the Common Room of Gore Hall. The program will begin promptly at 8.30 o'clock, and no one will be allowed to enter the Commons Room after that time...
...bill on which the Senate was trying to act was, on its face, quite simple. As passed by the House it authorized the Navy Department to build five cruisers each year for the next three years, and one small aircraft carrier. The total cost of this program was estimated at $274,000,000. The cruisers would have a displacement of 10,000 tons each, as permitted in unlimited numbers by the disarmament treaty of 1922. Each cruiser, armed and ready for battle, would represent an investment of $17,000,000. The Navy has argued that it needs this new auxiliary...
President Coolidge favored the authorization of the new cruisers, but objected to the three-year "time-limit" for construction. His objections, he said, were budgetary. He wanted the President to be allowed discretion in executing the program, dependent upon the condition of the Treasury. To persuade Congress to drop the time-limit, The last week offered to recommend a special preliminary cruiser-building appropriation so soon as the bill should be passed...
Neither the theory of giving the honors candidate an examination in his Junior year, nor that of delaying it until his Senior year represents a distinct educational program. Each is a different side of the same coin. No question of individual freedom is involved; this is determined by release from tutorial and course restriction, and the opportunities are equally good under either plan. The difference is one of degree, rather than of kind; whether a course which dismisses half its subject after a hurried two years is wiser than one which carries general and specific along together, to the profit...
...open end of the stadium with a structure of beauty or one which may be a blot upon the landscape is invested with a public interest. The Harvard decision in favor of steel stands is distinctly disappointing, being quite out of line with the rest of Harvard's building program. Boston Traveler...