Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn and a half. For a brief instant it seemed to hang there, nose down, immobile in the sky. Then it fell away in a normal tailspin which the pilot could correct after only half a turn...
Drinking can definitely be correlated with marks and amount of time spent on study, if Pugh's results are correct. The social, light-heavy, and heavy drinkers usually take a nip after an exam. Unfortunately, Pugh did not ask how many drank before exams...
From here on he passes on his own prejudices. The correct time for The Hour, he claims is 6 p.m. The proportions for the martini (providing you use 94.4 proof gin) are 3.7 to one, ranging possibly up to a little more than four. If you use less gin, "it is a marriage in name only and the name is not martini. You get a drinkable and even pleasurable result, but not art's sunburst of imagined delight becoming real...
Well, this may be all right for a man who drinks rye when he's not drinking martinis. And it may be all right for the man who has the entire evening free. The people who would say that the correct proportion is six or even seven to one, and the correct time 5:30 p.m. will disagree sharply here as I do, but DeVoto pays them no attention. To him, they are persons who have gone "through ignorance or unfortunate upbringing, not wickedness...
Second: Dean Bender is absolutely correct in stating that the CRIMSON erred in saying the Faculty disapproved the group tutorial plan...