Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of credit for the pride toward honors can be laid directly on the students themselves. Accepting only 250 freshmen out of 1600 applicants, the College can afford to pick only those who have shown some definite desire for further intellectual development. And intimate work with a faculty devoted to teaching is the reward of the serious students. Like hundreds of other school catalogues, Amherst's contains a sentence stating: "The real life of the College centers in he classroom, in the relationship between teachers and learners." Distinctive about Amherst's statement is the fact that...
...winter Bard students scatter almost literally to "the four winds" to take up jobs in industry and business for their Field Period. The Field Period consists of seven or eight weeks between the Fall and Spring terms and has been set up, according to the Bard catalogue, primarily "to afford the student a practical introduction to a profession or vocation in which he has an interest." The student may do this either for pay or voluntarily...
...that he has no popular opinion in his own nation to answer to and thus can pretend a monolithic support that does not exist. At Geneva he confronted a West whose purposes are suddenly cloudy, whose unity is cracked and whose will power is sapped. The dissembler could afford his mocking smile...
Though their parts afford less opportunity for satire, William White as the rival poet, and Sara-Jane Smith, as the milk-maid Patience, add some clever acting to the production. Along with excellent leads, Patience is served by a chorus of British soldiers and love-sick maidens who enthusiastically catch the G & S flavor. Adele Hugo's choreography and the direction of John Benedict keeps this cast moving through well-timed routines. In the past, disappointing performances have made the Winthrop opera a risky luxury for Gilbert and Sullivan fans. This year, Patience is a necessity...
...statement by Kenneth B. Murdock, professor of English, was typical of the faculty response. Murdock commented, "The question of student cutting on Saturdays or any other day seems to me to involve the responsibility of the student rather than the instructor. If a student feels that he can afford to cut without damage to his grade, he may take the risk...