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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing this he punches a hole in his answer strip, ineradicably noting that he thought his written answer correct. This same motion advances the machine to the next frame, and at the same time changes the position of the disk so that the correctly answered frame will not appear again if the student goes more than one full circle on the disk. Even if the answer is incorrect, the lever advances the machine to a consequent frame. When the disk spins without a step, all questions have been answered and the assignment is done...
...toward being some sort of mellow Pirandello, but though he uses all the standard reality-illusion devices, it is hard to tell what he is trying to do with them. It is not enough for a playwright merely to discusss "reality and illusion"; he ought at least to appear to have something to say about them...
...fact remains that Harvard faculty are Radcliffe faculty and Radcliffe students pay the same tution as their brethren on the perhaps unrealistic assumption that they are getting the same education. And tutors are an important part of a Harvard-Radcliffe education. To be fair, it would appear that departments must seek some means by which Radcliffe will have an equal chance with Harvard at getting the best tutors, who are likely to be in the Houses...
...Harding era (Revelry, Incredible Era), master of reminiscence (Grandfather Stories), whose widely varied five-foot shelf also made a large haul in Hollywood (Flaming Youth, It Happened One Night, The Gorgeous Hussy, The Harvey Girls); in Beaufort, S.C. "I'm damned if I want my last novel to appear posthumously," he said, but Tenderloin will not appear until January...
...senior societies, unlike the frats, or rather fraternities, are an institution peculiar to Yale. Each is a group of fifteen people dedicated to privacy and generally either self-im-provement, literature, liquor, athletics, or discussion. While they are public to the extent that the names of new members appear in the paper every year, they are secret in that no one ever reveals what goes on inside. Some have no windows. Others have many exits. Many retain mystical ceremonies and most have strange customs. Skull and Bones, for example, has the tradition that every member must leave the room when...