Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insurance will fully cover the cost of restoring the building and its furnishings, O'Brien noted. However, the total extent of damages will not be known for several weeks when the insurance company completes its inspection. Firemen at the scene estimated the figure would run into several thousand dollars...
...extent to which the Crimson dominated the game was evident in goalie Harry Pratt's saves: five in the first two periods and eight (half by Tab Cleary) in the third. The Williams sextet, which had a contest with Bowdoin "melted out" Friday, had skated together for only ten days before the game, and lacked a cohesive attack...
...other college costs would probably rise considerably less. In other words, an increase of tuition of 100 per cent in the next ten or twelve years will not involve students or their parents in sacrifice much beyond the present. Indeed, the objective is to increase the sacrifice to some extent because, on the whole, as compared to the rise of per capita income, tuition has become a great bargain in the last fifteen years and this is at the expense of the kind of product that the colleges are turning out. If the student pays more, he will also...
...elementary languages. There are some schools which have no language program at all whereas others give their pupils only an antiquated start in French or Spanish and see them come to grief in the College Board Exams. Until the secondary schools improve their language teaching to a far higher extent or until colleges stiffen their admissions policy, it will be the latter's function to teach a good percentage of their students a foreign language...
There is some sentiment in the faculty to accelerate a first year language course to the extent that Cornell has, the result being that the student would be able to pass his language requirement at the end of his first year (provided he had had little or no training in high school). According to Geary, the best year the Language department has had to date was 1955 when 30% of the first year students passed their language requirement at the end of their first year. It is then possible that, if the accelerated course were put in, a far larger...