Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salt Lake City, teachers clamored for a "leeway" referendum to allow the school board to add 5 mills to property taxes, lost badly after a campaign that degenerated into a dogfight between pressure groups, with teachers opposing the Chamber of Commerce and citizens' committees. Observers felt that the recession weighed only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study...
...solutions to this problem are several, if anyone cares to seek them. It is obvious that the University could allow students to join the other residents of Cambridge on equal terms, parking on one side of the street. But since the University was conceived in a Puritanical tradition which viewed pleasure as sinful and convenience as decadent, such a simple solution is evidently impractical. In any case, it is obviously much more effective to promote town-gown relations by joining the town than by seeking rational solutions to non-existent problems...
...alleviate two stereotyped situations. First, the bored upperclassman, cutting lectures in his survey courses, tossing off papers the night before for an easy B; the other, the dry-as-dust graduate whose vision is narrowing to the confines of his special field. CEP changes in tutorial and course requirements allow the undergraduate more flexibility. Revisions in the Ph.D. program are directing the time of senior faculty members to graduate tutorial work. For the high-ranking student who feels his middle-group courses expendable, and personal attention more desirable, a wide range of graduate courses can provide him with a training...
...game will be held on the baseball field, where the more than adequate seating accommodations will allow the spectators to decide just what's cricket...
Some people were disappointed that Senturia did not choose, for his last performance, a work which would allow him to shine somewhat more than the Haydn. But he has never imposed his personality upon the music or the audience, and it seemed entirely appropriate for him to end with a concerto. The mature musician is satisfied with participating, and does not need the constant glare of the spotlight...