Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the last exam of the spring term is over, most well-esteemed university professors are likely to be already en route to the airport with their luggage. Carrying a wad of traveler's checks courtesy of some big foundation or Government agency, today's academician is off to dispense advice to a foreign government, finish a book in the splendor of the English countryside, burrow in the site of an ancient ruin, or pursue his research to tropical Islands, glacial lakes, laboratory ships, remote capitals or perhaps even the Great Barrier Reef...
...exodus of name singers, the Italian audiences can in part blame themselves. "They hiss or whistle too easily," says Soprano Mirella Freni. "I like a certain battle climate, but in Italy every evening is a graduation exam...
President Pusey and Dean Monro support a draft exam, and the Selective Service System says that's precisely what it has in mind. The HUC reports that 12 colleges enthusiastically favor an exchange program with Harvard. "It doesn't seem to make very good sense," Pusey says of the idea...
...first year, the offer had virtually no takers; few victims cared to tackle the four-page application that demands minute details about the crime and a medical exam if necessary. But with a recent surge of business, the board, working on the basis of British damage standards, has now paid 1,473 victims a total of $1,400,000. In a new report, a sampling of the board's cases somewhat deflates the old image of law-abiding Britain...
...came and went, but 83 Brattle Street's elevator stayed, thanks to Mrs. Bunting's reversal of her earlier decision. Although a two-week delay now means a six-week delay in the elevator's installation next winter, the Administration decided that the difficulties caused by Commencement, exam period, and moving were reason tough to delay demolition until June...