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With the year's first issue published last Friday, the staff of the Freshman newspaper the Yardling last night elected editors for the future bi-weekly editions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Newspaper Staff Chooses Editors | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

...News' financial difficulties began last spring when the student body voted to abolish compulsory subscription rates in a bi-annual referendum. Several students felt that it was undemocratic to require all undergraduates to pay for a paper only some of them wanted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Rejects Support of News In Student Vote | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Summoned by the shocked temple priest, the police found Hari Singh sitting quietly under a sapling in the temple courtyard, waiting for Kali to bring Bi-Kram's little body back to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Sacrifice | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...houses," which hold between 25 and 30 students, has quarters for a married master and at least one other instructor. The master, a senior faculty member, also acts as an advisor to the students in his dormitory. This task involves at least one conference every two weeks to discuss bi-weekly grade reports. But the master's job involves much more--seeing that the younger students are in bed on time, collecting the required Sunday night letters to families, quieting disturbances, and occasionally having parties...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Middlesex: A Private Boarding School | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

...general characteristic of a small private school: the large amount of faculty attention lavished--for better or worse on all students. With a school of 194 it is still possible for the faculty to discuss every individual student in the faculty meetings following each set of exams. And in bi-weekly meetings the faculty, with two-week grades at hand, can discuss the most pressing problems at length. Not all students need, or want, or appreciate such close attention, but for many it is the most important service a private school can offer...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Middlesex: A Private Boarding School | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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