Word: abandoned
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...Julian Lowell Coolidge 95 retired as Master of Lowell House and was replaced by a young instructor in English history named Elliott Perkins. At the time the College wondered what changes Perkins would make in the House; and specifically, whether he would abandon what the CRIMSON called, two days before his appointment, "Lowell's traditional style of life, modeled on life at Oxbridge." In twenty-three years in the House, Perk has decisively laid such doubts to rest. And as he retires this year from the Mastership, he leaves a House whose own traditions, and whose sense of tradition...
Because of this and similar objections, and because GM felt it was not getting the proper distribution of its scholarship funds, the decision was made to abandon the national plan and to increase the number of institutions participating in the college plan, McFarland said...
...three-day weekend is no substitute for coeducation. Although nearly two-thirds of the girls abandon the campus every week, their social life is, almost to a woman, frustrating...
...lost, Mansfield writes: "All of the current difficulties existed in 1955 . . . But it is seven years and $2 billion of U.S. aid later." Primary responsibility, his report said, must rest with the Vietnamese. If new effort on their part is not forthcoming, "the U.S. can reduce its commitment or abandon it entirely, but there is no interest of the U.S. which would justify, in present circumstances, the conversion of the war in that country primarily into an American war, to be fought primarily with American lives . . . An orderly curtailment of such programs in other countries where they now function need...
Perhaps in the aftermath of Cuba, as the hard truth about the conduct of foreign affairs in this world is squarely faced, American radicalism might re-discover a traditional but recently neglected area of concern. This is not to say radicals should abandon their role as public critics in the field of foreign policy; but it is to say their talents, both as chastisers of the established and creators of the new, are also needed elsewhere