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Under the new system the Committee will still assign roommate groups to the same House, with a probable limit of six to each group. The applications which freshmen submit will request only a listing of roommates and data pertinent to equal distribution...
...them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers at the new Minimax snatched up cat food whether or not they had cats (the store finally had to assign a clerk to explain that the food was for cats; said one Italian shopper: "Then I'll get a cat"), bought up huge quantities of Kraft's "Italian" salad dressing and ripe olives canned...
...recently released Rockefeller Panel Report on the Performing Arts said "it is only a question of time before specialized training in the performing arts will... be accepted as an appropriate role for institutions of higher education." The report noted that at present Harvard's policy is to assign the performing arts--theatre, music, and dance--to the extracurricular area of student activity...
...retain the cepts acquire an understanding that goes beyond a rote knowledge of who said what. These teachers may also delight in the cept as a handy way of rating the quality of a student's essay in quantitative terms. They merely scan the essay, underline the cepts, assign a numerical value to each, and tot them up. Other teachers never admit they are even aware of cepts-but tacitly use them anyway in grading. Superlative ceptsmanship amounts to a canny duel between teacher and student...
...than the combined assets of the parent banks, has gained six new branches (total: 136) and thousands of new customers. To Justice, this simply reinforces a contention that the merger materially reduced bank competition in New York; for the bank, it raises the question of how it can possibly assign its new assets and customers in any split. The bank is expected to fight right up to the Supreme Court any move to materially reduce its size...