Word: decent
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Princeton has a more difficult assignment. Its opponent, Colgate, has an interesting past. It includes a tie with B.U., a romp over Rutgers, and a close squeeze past Cornell. The Red Raiders, therefore, should give the Tigers a fairly decent challenge and provide the League with more information on the state of Dick Colman's squad. Ivy League teams have done pretty well against outsiders this season; Princeton should improve the League's winning percentage...
Leslie Caron, occasionally in lingerie, spends a weekend accidently locked up with a stolid picture framer in the last part, "Two Pigeons." The situation puts heavy stress on the imagination, but creates some decent comedy. By narrating their sides of the story alternately, the two prisoners expertly squeeze out all the possibilities their predicament suggests, short of the obvious...
Huxley is clearly advocating a kind of hybridization of concepts, a fruitful interchange and assimilation of ideas. It requires, on both sides, some solid general education--the kind which could easily be taught in a decent secondary school. The limited communication possible with such a background must be recognized for what it is, but certainly should not be deplored. It can be useful, while somewhat deeper (higher level) communication might not necessarily be more valuable. There does seem to be a point of diminishing returns for a general education program, and we must accept as inevitable the fact that...
...writers should read your own news columas; on September 24 and 26 CRIMSON news stories reported us just right. We believe that the great majority of students behave well during parietal hours. But we have been badly shaken up recently by some covere vislations of our rules and of decent standards of behavior. And when we talked to the students lived of we found a prevailing attitude that what west on in the rooms during social hours was none of the College's business. We are troubled that the social hours are often loosely administered and often not respected...
...decent person can condone the bombing of churches or the killing of children, and the guilty should be punished and such happenings stopped...