Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never liked Wordsworth in prep school, but today he had to admit that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the other side of the river. He turned towards Newell and suddenly espied two pug-nosed Cambridge waifs sitting on the bank fishing. Vag looked at them grandiloquently. "Salve, piscatores," he said. "Same to you, fish-face," came the reply...
...their campuses? The man who passed them this hot potato was University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul. Sympathizing with his 300 Nisei (American-born Japanese) students, whom he had to evacuate, Dr. Sproul asked 32 inland colleges (all west of the Mississippi) to admit them. The University of Washington followed suit, but extended its request to universities east of the Mississippi...
...entire field, for that matter, does not seem to scare its concentrators and a goodly number of them frankly, and often disappointedly, admit it can be taken as a "bull" field. Examinations are very often passed after a day or two of cramming and except only such better tutors as Mercier, Penny, and Seznac the tutorial can be disregarded. Romance Languages, is the field most nearly approaching the prep school student's idealization of college life, you will get just as much out of it as you put into...
...requirements in the field. Whereas concentrators up to this year were asked to take eight courses in the field, entering Freshmen need but six, although eight is, of course, highly recommended. Also, a reading knowledge of either French and German, rather than both, as was previously stipulated, will admit a student into one of the cross section fields: the Renaissance, the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, or Nineteenth century. Ancient and Modern Authors exams may be tied in more with the tutorial than heretofore, but this decision still rests with the department...
Timetrials are funny things; as anyone who has laid any money on a crew only on the basis of a single clocking will probably ruefully admit. In spite of their apparent worthlessness, however, the Crimson coaching staff is as jealous about the Varsity's latest clocking over the Henley as Dick Harlow is about some of the darker secrets of his latest illegitimate T formation...