Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked about the future of Catholic women's colleges, Switzer said they have as good an opportunity for life in the future as any other women's colleges. The critical issues in women's colleges today are economic, she added, "financially, the fate of women's colleges seems bleak...
Many members of the Boston chapter play "Dungeons and Dragons," a fantasy game in which "dungeon masters control your fate using tables of probability and predetermined alternatives," Pugliese said...
...reforms--to force Faculty commitment to the tutorial system--is in keeping with the original, commendable spirit of the tutorial concept. But this legislation, which lacks formal methods of enforcement, must falter before a predominantly resistant teaching staff. The history of failed tutorial legislation sadly presages this effort's fate. The 1958 tutorial regulations, which allegedly still guide each department, require that Faculty members teach a minimum of 30% of a department's tutorials and that graduate students teach no more than 30%. However, a 1977 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest departments--Economics, English...
Fortunately, Mr. Yates is alive to tell his story. A less experienced or less lucky individual might have met a quite different fate. I found it most significant that Mr. Yates stated he would discourage anyone else from attempting a similar climb. I fear, though, that because of the publicity Mr. Yates has received, the end result may be just the opposite. Joshua L. Sheinkman...
...writing anybody," she told another. "In fact it is about my only way of visiting people as I don't get around much and people seldom come to see us in the country." What might have been frittered away in conversation was thus preserved, and this accident of fate leads to a startling discovery: the most memorable character that O'Connor ever got down on paper...