Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will not repeat last year's ECAC hockey championship. The Crimson dropped a volatile 6-4 affair to Clarkson last night in upstate New York, and will have to be content with almost but not quite upsetting one of the hardest-hitting teams in the East...
...Masters have the endurance to assure that the sophomores entering their Houses bear a certain stamp (one could, for instance, imagine a Master who wanted as many public school students as possible). Other Masters are content to indicate their preferences for a dozen or so students, and let the remainder of the admissions be fixed by the students' preferences and the distribution requirements. Still other Masters are happy with whatever balanced group of sophomores they receive...
...main street about two blocks from the African market, we were soon stopped by a group of soldiers and forced to wait outside the car for about twenty minutes. Actually, this provided us with a relatively safe viewpoint from which to watch the soldiers in action. They seemed content to let the more efficient police restore order; the streets cleared rapidly and occasional shots rang out, often fired into a trash can "for effect...
...Redbook Committee had wanted to give students some idea of the processes by which scientific discoveries were made by showing how these things had been done in the past. This ideal was rejected by the Bruner Committee, which was far more interested in the content of the solutions and discoveries. But by directing the attention of students to unsolved problems, Mrs. Bunting hopes to accomplish the goal of the Redbook Committee, at least in part, with a course which could not be attacked as historical rather than scientific...
...those who fell into their clutches. "The several departments," it said, "ordinarily have definite ideas of what is to be included within the immediate scope of their interest. They make rigorous demands upon the student's activities and time; and in the absence of virtually all definition of content in general educaeson, concentration inevitably dominates the curriculum...