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...travelling students scrupulously, it still goes to great lengths to exclude any possibility that "study by the Seine" will become a fancy term for a long Paris vacation. As a check on its far-flung students of Romance Languages, the College requires them to study in France under Sweet briar College's package program. Organized by Sweet briar, but including about eighty students from thirty colleges, this non-profit group ships the students to France, guides them through the terrors of the metro, gives them a Parisian education, and then heads them toward home. But in performing it function, Sweet...
Knapp and Moore retained the open cake box, the forgotten pool room, and the traditional habit of handing out cigars at Commencement. And they established the shop among the elite smokers by importing their own Algerian briar pipes and stocking their shelves with ninety cigarette brands...
James F. Meeker '56 kept his pipe going for 77 minutes and 43 seconds last night to set a new local record for continuous pipe-smoking. He received a new briar and will get a free trip to the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the finals...
...plan also would give the Committee on General Education authorization to reduce general education requirements for students studying abroad, as the Committee deems appropriate. Under present arrangements study can be done in connection with the Sweet Briar groups in Geneva, Madrid, Paris, and Munich. These proposals will go before the faculty at their March meeting...
...would like to help applaud, with many encores, the Student Council proposal for foreign study during the junior year. I took my junior year abroad through the protection of the Sweet Briar Group to which the Harvard Romance Languages Department bravely entrusts its students for a year in Paris. It was, and still is, the only means for us to study abroad--a means not only limited to one department but inadequate for that department itself...