Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprisingly enough, the system functions with more than moderate success. Few girls want to endanger their liberal privileges by abusing them, and fewer still find the cumulative social probation a stiff penalty, since the slate is wiped clean at the end of each semester. The rare cases of "false registration" are, however, considered serious by the Radcliffe Student government. On at least one occasion, the Administration has followed Student Government's recommendation to expel a girl for this offense...
...trouble began at the end of the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday afternoon when an undergraduate crowd, perhaps upset by the tough handling of rioters during Thursday's outbreak, loitered in the streets and threw a few snowballs at a group of massed New Haven police. Joined by motorcycle units and supported by fire-hoses, the police, using their clubs freely, charged the crowd...
...Africa are still thought of as lower civilizations, admired only for primitive art and Japanese prints. This is the average extent of undergraduate cosmopolitanism. Meanwhile, the non-Eastern student has been taught the inadequacies of his own provincialism; and even if he does not repudiate his background by the end of his four years at Harvard, he will wear an eastern mask while he is here, to be shed only when he returns home, if he returns...
...end, Hilary's need for affection overcomes even her terror of the "Devil." When she meets him again in a field beyond the Downs, she smiles in welcome and he invites her to his trailer. The last part of Novelist Bawden's melodrama is dominated by the cliffhanging question of what will happen to Hilary in that trailer...
...end, the excesses of her more diligent henchmen sickened even Elizabeth, the Queen who presided over the liquidation of Roman Catholicism in England. After about 180 executions, including the Jesuit Robert Southwell, Elizabeth said that if her council wanted to convert more Catholics to the Established Church, they should do so by the example of their lives. "For I," she cried, "will persecute no more than I have done...