Word: extent
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Transfers into Harvard are not very numerous and are therefore not regarded as much of a problem. However, to a large extent, the problem does not exist only because lack of housing prevents it from becoming fully formalized. A more definite transfer admission policy will have to be adopted within the the next few years as more and more students flood the colleges and greater numbers of superior students ask to transfer into Harvard. This increase will become especially noticeable with the coming vast expansion of the junior college system in the United States. Harvard will increasingly be forced...
...hand-in-hand with a quaint, baroque conception known as "objects d'art," a period surviving more than one generation and producing a few diversified and immense collections. Such a phenomenon is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, the Frick collection of New York, and even, to some extent, the still inaccessible treasures of that formidable eccentric, Alfred Barnes of Philadelphia...
Jayne Mansfield, cast as a swing-shift susie whose hair is "natural except for color," and who appreciates a uniform "to the fullest extent," fills a disproportionate amount of screen time, not to mention space. But the show is saved at almost every turn by Actor Grant. At 53, he is perhaps the only one of the older generation of movie heroes who can still walk into a closeup without pinning up his jowls. And even a bad line somehow seems great when Gary pays it out as smooth as tooth paste. As for a good line, he can drop...
This then is the no-nonsense generation, and the only real danger in it is that it might become a generation of grinds. Just as the goldfish swallower is dead, so, to a large extent, is the dilettante and the knowledge-for-knowledge's-sake boy. Today's student has little patience with mere intellectual flash. Nor is he particularly tolerant of any form of obscurantism. "The college student," says Editor Howard Seemen of the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Daily, "wants something he can put his hands on. The double meaning is not popular...
...leave from MIT, Killian has the job of eliminating delay and interservice rivalry in the field of military science. The extent of his authority has still to be tested, however...