Word: coring
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Dartmouth has been relatively immune to injury this year. Center forward Egil Stigum is one of the few victims. He missed three of the earlier games, but he will start today. Stigum, Drawbaugh, and inside right Bud Addis form the core of the Green scoring threat. Addis excels at setting up for Drawbaugh. Stigum is a tricky dribbler and goal-getter in his own right...
...other universities, it also accomplishes more because it attempts more of what is new and different. But the course of constant change along which Harvard has moved during the past three centuries has not been free of obstacles. Here, more than in most places, there is always one hard core or another to oppose the slightest twist of emphasis on the part of the Administration. This is not extraordinary; each individual is convinced that his method of saving the world and the University from itself is the best. To change anything, an innovator must convince all divergent groups that they...
...faculty, according to one department director, makes periodic attempts to "develop a more studious atmosphere." But the Core system, which is the apple of Colgate's academic eye, and is like an intensive composite of Harvard's General Education program combined with the preceding Rules of Distribution precludes the picayune study that is the basis for intense scholarship Rather, most courses at Colgate are of the survey variety, aimed at a smattering of culture in many times and lands...
...Religion, Freshmen are whisked through the great books and ideas of western man. Lighting on original texts, the student has just begun to sip the nectar when he is driven off on a different track. Anticipating the probable requirements of an educated business man in a literate world, the Core courses prepare Colgate men for cocktail party chatter, arming them with a general knowledge of comprehensive fields. For instance, the catalogue lists Core 10, the literature course prescribed for Juniors, as seeking "primarily to develop in the student the intelligent enjoyment of literature...
...brutal picture, with a core of horror imbedded in its accounts of mere hell-raising. All but one of the principal characters are fairly scarifying as future warriors or even as future citizens. There is a blabbing prig, a conniving misfit, an ingratiatingly evil Jocko De Paris (Ben Gaz-zara), a master of midnight ceremonies violent enough to mean court-martial and expulsion...