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...officer in charge of university entrance examinations at Cambridge said tolerantly: "This proposal has been brought up intermittently for over the last 100 years. I don't imagine the arguments have changed much." The proposal: drop Cambridge's stringent entrance rule requiring knowledge of Latin or Greek. It had been put forward most recently in 1948, when the dons voted it down 250-155, and the clamor against enforced classicism was going strong again last week. Most clangorous clamorer: gadfly-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lbs.), distinguished Cambridge Author-Astronomer Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (who lists among...
Whitlock noted that the University is preparing to build 12-story dormitory buildings so that it will not be "forced to acquire more Cambridge land." Stringent height and bulk restrictions in the new ordinance might drive the University to purchase more property "than we either desire to or than we feel is healthy for the Cambridge community...
...child, his constitution was remarkable, and he rallied amazingly from his serious illness four years ago (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954). He was in good health until the recurrence, a week ago, of the gastric pain and hiccups that had plagued him in 1954. He soon struggled back into his stringent schedule, but one day last week, as his doctor was examining him, he suddenly cried in alarm, "Dio mio, non ci vedo!-My God, I cannot see!" It was a stroke. The Pope fought back. His vision restored, he summoned his substitute Secretary of State, Angelo Dell'Acqua...
...before and after it, have demonstrated that a more reliable safeguard that the human nervous system is needed. The CAA tracking system relies on manual posting of each plane's position on a map, and cannot possibly control all flights. In addition, military planes operate under a separate, more stringent control system, and the lack of co-ordination between civil and military aviation can result in such collisions as the one in Nevada last month...
Ballard supported the current University ruling, which prohibits student parking on streets near the College between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. "I can't imagine any less stringent action being effective...