Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps Mike's visit to Harvard echoed some reminiscences of his own college days when life was a great deal less hurried and complicated. "When I was in the University," he confides, "my roommates wanted to study all the time. They thought by staying up all night before an examination they would learn all the knowledge. Me, I just went to sleep...
...parking is not the only problem of a bicycle owner. Stealing of both bicycles and scooters (eight scooters have already been stolen this fall) is a situation with which the University Police cannot possibly deal except with Administration support. By pressing Cambridge to enforce its law on required bicycle registration and by requiring such registration within the University, the University could take a long step towards discouraging bicycle theft...
Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Economics Department, said his department also had no plans to reconsider additional measures, and, in fact, stated his belief that "a great many graduate students who stay around for a long time get a great deal out of it." He proposed an increased concentration on the M.A. in order to "produce needed teachers for junior colleges," and asserted that the greatest need of the GSAS was refusing to admit second-rate students, who at present constitute "about 25 per cent" of the enrollment...
...vast number of better organized pressure groups in the United States, it is relatively ineffective. But in the foreign exchanges and relations which it promotes, it serves an indispensable function. No other group so effectively presents democratic views to the student leaders abroad where Communism expends a good deal of effort on student groups. Presuming that Harvard students are some day to be leaders of their country, it seems all the more important for them to be able to engage officially in the programs the NSA offers...
...sales were made, and the salesman below is just clinching a deal for one of his expensive turntables. Perhaps all the responses to the abundant music at the show are represented in the three attitudes struck at eight on our clock; manly criticism, feminine rapture, and middle-aged contemplation...