Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wadsworth of the Crimson pitched almost as well as Manson, but could not overcome the handicap of some atrocious early-inning fielding by his teammates. Only one of the six Bruin runs was earned...
...remaining 349 non-residents, almost 30 per cent are either married or what Leighton calls "old men"--students whose college careers have been interrupted. About a third are new freshmen, of whom 66 students are "forced, though not necessarily unwilling" commuters, and 52 are just plain "voluntary" commuters. (As recently announced, the Class of '63 will have no "forced" commuters.) The other Dudley members, around 129 students, are "other upperclassmen...
...aspect of this planning, President Pusey mentions the "individuality" of non-residents, referring to their special place within the House system. For almost thirty years, two proposals have dominated the discussion on how to integrate commuters into the "life of the College." On the one hand, Dean Bender suggests affiliation of all commuters with the residential Houses as a desirable possibility. Worried about the "isolation" of commuting students, Bender objects to their being "sequestered in a place like Dudley on the basis of economics and geography...
...statement, however, this plan of affiliation could not be adopted. In the first place, the Masters of the residential Houses were not eager to assume a greater administrative load, or to further overcrowd their physical facilities. Secondly, the commuters themselves, as shown by a poll in 1953, were almost unanimously opposed. Not wanting to spread out their sack lunches beneath the crystal chandeliers of Lowell House, they felt it better to have one strong Dudley than seven weak ones. Similar to the Revolutionary aphorism, their reaction was "Let's hang together or we'll hang seperately...
...typical example of the provincialism which so often characterizes Senate conservatives, it is a depressing case of their inability to adapt themselves to the year 1959. American-made equipment for teaching science has long been almost unbelievably expensive. Schools which are neither rich, nor equipped with ingenious teachers who can hand-build teaching equipment, are frequently forced by the costs to curtail some of their science teaching, or to do it with inadequate demonstrations...