Word: briars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gideon of Scotland Yard. Jolly good fun for the crime crowd, with Jack Hawkins puffing the inspectorial briar...
According to Alice G. Pannell, President of Sweet Briar College, "the basic need for women's education in the 20th century is to realize the problems of the age of science and space." She called for American women to cooperate rather than compete with men and cited the importance of women "in reducing the manpower shortage...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...student is required to take Sweet Briar's own courses, unless so directed by his college or university. These courses are given, for the most part, by professors from the faculties of the University of Paris, the Ecole do Louvre, and the Comedie Francaise. However, the Harvard student, barring objections from Cambridge, is free to specialize as he wishes. So much for the needless imposition of Sweet Briar restraints, "a large academic handicap" which inflicts a foolish financial burden...
While the above letter argues well for Sweet Briar's program, we have received complaints based on first-hand knowledge that participation in the group does negate many educational opportunities of study in France. Students who have returned report that they did have to take six weeks at Tours; but even are if Tours' and participation in Sweet Briar courses are not required, students still have to pay for them, and this fact alone indicates that well-prepared Harvard students must pay for services which they neither need nor want. As we stated, advice is needed, but we repeat...