Word: chart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penance for my long lack of faith, I have spent an exam period evening with a typewriter and a pile of Thoroughbred Records and decided to call it for Damascus. His Preakness was beautiful. Approaching the stretch turn, he was second to last and then, according to the official chart, "circled the field with a mighty rush" and "established a commanding lead." Coming from the invariably monosyllabic chart writer, that is poetry. Proud Clarion, despite a less than perfect ride by jockey Bobby Ussery, also started to make a good move in the stretch, and for a split second...
HAPPY TOGETHER (White Whale). It's spring, and the voice of the Turtles is heard in our land. Their refrain: "I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life." The chart-climbing group runs to ABC melodies, soft harmonies and unabashed sentiments. "It may be corny, but I hear wedding bells," admits the head Turtle...
When some years ago the Graduate Student Council and the Dean of the Graduate School drew up the present "rate of work" chart, it was finally concluded that the only practicable way to spell out the work required for different fractions was to stick entirely to the hours spent in actual meetings with students. It seemed impossible to cope with the fact that one Teaching Fellow may be better prepared for assisting in a course than another, or that one Teaching Fellow for his own academic interests deliberately wants to spend more time on a course than another, or that...
...they can afford (hopefully two or three sections of the same course), fit in a little teaching between long days and nights in libraries and laboratories, pick up the Ph.D. in June and move on to jobs of $9000-10,000 a year; most of us, no doubt, chart a confusing course between these two full-time roles and somehow manage to work our way through graduate school in four, five, six, or seven years...
...above chart, only Peter Allen would be circled. The explanation of the abbreviations and ratings used in the chart above are shown below: Monro's Ratings Athletic Proficiency Secondary School Types 1--Outstanding 1--Varsity prospect 1--local private school (Milton, Nobles) 2--Very strong 2--JV prospect 2--Andover, Exeter 3--Good House prospect 3--House prospect 3--other private school 4--Innocuous 4--high school-college 5--Possible problem 5--high school Extracurricular at Harvard Athletics at Harvard Personal 1--Crimson 1--Football S--Scholar 2--Advocate 2--Track A--Athlete 3--Yardling 3--Hockey M--Music...