Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid disappointment a visitor should have realistic expectations about the restaurants in China today, most of which are below standards set in Hong Kong, Taipei and New York. Despite the country's ancient traditions of cuisine, most chefs now are out of practice when it comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef...
While a generation ago most Ivy Leaguers lived in buildings of the traditional architecture that marks much of Stollman's school, the University of Pennsylvania, today there is a wide range of rooming arrangements and housing systems throughout the ancient eight...
...housing options offered by the ancient eight run the gamut from a Columbia-owned apartment near Harlem to the medieval fortress like grey stone dormitories at Princeton...
...general rule among the ancient eight is that seniors are awarded an advantage over other students in the lottery, and it is often said that students endure misconveniences in early year, waiting for payday when they are upperclassmen. Cornell is the sole exception to this rule, where seniors are given no advantage over underclassmen in the lottery system...
...Previous attempts to reform the CRR were a lotcloser to the time. It's ancient history now, butit wasn't then," says Fox who presided over tworeform attempts as dean of the college. "The bigthing to do was not to reform the CRR but to chuckit out and it was possible to do that at thistime...