Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the middle of the freshman crew race exactly seven days ago, the MIT shell meandered absent-mindedly to the left and then to the right. MIT oarsmen have insisted ever since that "they wuz robbed" and had their boat only travelled in a straight line they would have kept the lead they managed to hold for more than a mile...
...addition to the Faculty Big Names associated with the History and Lit department, such as F. O. Matthiessen, who will be absent next year but will return in the fall of 1950, there is a group of tuors who are specialists in each of the fields, and every concentrator gets regular tutorial guidance from the time he enters, unless his grades fall below the minimum Group IV rating...
...dormitory ships," which carry student tours for as little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France, absent from the Atlantic run for eight years, will not make its first trip for three months, it is already sold out until October. The airlines, reinforced with new equipment, are booked solid too; they expect to fly 150,000 tourists abroad at $630 (to London) to $808 (to Rome) round trip...
Also present: Richard Greene and Jeanne Grain as Lord and Lady Windermere, and Martita (Great Expectations) Hunt as the malicious Duchess of Berwick. Conspicuously absent in this Otto Preminger-directed revival: the sparkling style, pace and timing that made Wilde's plays amusing even at their emptiest...
...According to the regulations voted by the Faculty, a freshman or sophomore in good standing but net on the Dean's List who is absent from his last college exercise before or his, first college exercise after the April recess will be subject to disciplinary action...