Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often said that spirit is 50% of the power to win. Whether or not steps to improve the caliber of our football team are materializing, we think that the spirit of the student body can be improved to a great extent, and that this infectious enthusiasm can help the team...
Payday, pleasant sounding but ominous in implication, begins today at Radcliffe. Pockets must be turned out to the minimum extent of $5.50 for freshmen and sophomores and $6.00 for juniors and seniors...
...injuries on Saturday, only the customary bruises. Bob Stargel was still limping yesterday and Red Wylie is definitely out of the Army game. Hank Rate, first string defensive end, dove for a pass in yesterday's practice, came down on his stomach, and had to leave the field. The extent of his injury if any is not yet known...
...professional educators tolerate this sort of thing? To some extent, says Sperry, they have no alternative. Since public-school teachers are wretchedly underpaid, the profession seldom gets the cream of high-school graduates ("The English don't have a democracy," cried one student teacher in the course of a history class. "They have a king.") The colleges themselves seldom have the money that other institutions have, and their professors-"the men who teach the teachers-rank close to the bottom of the prestige ladder in the academic world." The great universities and the liberal arts colleges consistently ignore their...
Tightening Up. Last week FRB, which had been tightening up on credit since last summer, thought the time had come to tighten up some more. Bank loans, which expand credit and to some extent feed the fires of inflation, rose $108 million in the New York City area, to an all-time high of $5.7 billion (topping the previous peak of 1948). There was little doubt that loans around the nation were also...