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...merits of each applicant and his program and, in effect, resigned this function to the departments. So the young lady who hands you the form now says, "if you can get your Head Tutor's signature, that's 95 per cent of the problem."--if you don't run afoul of some administration rule...
...further complication is that independent studies is only one of at least six programs designed to produce the same effect. So if your petition runs afoul of some department, some person, or some rule, don't despair: you may still get what you want under the rubric of course reduction, rate reduction, special rate reduction, tutorial for credit, or double tutorial for credit, or something...
Cuffe played a full schedule last winter, but then ran afoul of an Ivy League ruling: players must complete their four years of eligibility within four years of their matriculation, with exceptions only for illness, emergency beyond the student's control, or the draft. Since Cuffe had used up his four years and the exemption for military service, he brought his own case to Dean Watson. Ultimately the Ivy Committee on Eligibility voted him ineligible...
After taking a close 64-62 decision from Amherst last Thursday, the varsity basketball team ran afoul of the weather and the Yale five Saturday night in New Haven and went down to an 81-57 defeat...
...tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven...