Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even in the stacks one was unprotected from the brash intrusion of the band's noise as it paraded through the Square, and as Lucius repositioned himself familiarly in his alcove, irritation crept over...
...first of the great football fields, the Stadium influenced the shape and size of every other arena, and even made its mark on rules of the game. When public indignation over football's "roughness" forced President Theodore Roosevelt to institute a new set of rules in 1906, one of the proposed changes was to make fields a full 40 yards wider. This move would have changed the whole character of football, turning it into a Rugby-type game, with more lateral passing and sideways running. Harvard protested, however, that such an innovation would outdate its six-year-old Stadium...
...partial truth of each of these stereotypes is easily recognizable even to the casual visitor, but only one of these generalizations seems to gain the unanimous recognition of faculty and students: Sarah Lawrence is devoted to the individual, and individualism is its most cherished attribute...
There too, however, Sarah Lawrence is moving closer to the tried and true. Over concentration in the arts, a common occurrence in the past, is no longer permitted. No girl may take two courses in the arts simultaneously until her senior year (another recently applied curricular restriction). Even in this area, Sarah Lawrence's radicalism has become more moderate...
...Even the conservative, exceptionally wealthy, neighboring town of Bronxville seems to have been won over to the college. Town-gown relations, tenuous at time in the past, are better now partly due to Sarah Lawrence's sharing of its auditorium and frequent invitations to Westchester residents to attend theatrical performances and other college events...