Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather typical, ne'er compromising, institutional fashion. First, the ad board perceives the problem thusly: how do we lower the number of sickouts? There are three or four options, according to Dean K. Whitla, director of instructional research and evaluation. An asterisk could be attached to the final grade on a student's transcript, indicating the grade was completed with a make-up exam. Make-up exams could be scheduled at more inconvenient times--or perhaps the exams themselves could be made more difficult. All this to discourage the students from sicking...
...bill proposed raising the age to 19 through a parliamentary maneuver in the Senate Ways and Means committee. By an 8-1 vote, the committee discarded the House bill and sent the age 19 proposal to the Senate floor in a form difficult to amend. The Senate approved the final bill by a vote of 29-3 with two members voting "present...
Even for those fortunate enough not to have to worry about meeting championship time standards, this weekend's meets provide some final opportunities to sharpen skills for the upcoming effort to unseat Princeton as Eastern Champions two weeks hence...
...keeper. The characters line up almost exactly like those in The Petrified Forest, but in that film they were three-dimensional. In Red Ryder the characters are all foils for Teddy's contempt. None of them are allowed to do anything but whimper or get hysterical. When Red Ryder finally goes after Teddy and shoots him down, the film has already lost us. The final act of bravery, unlike Leslie Howard's in Petrified Forest, makes little impact, because we have had no glimpse of strength in the character until that moment. The scene in which Red kills Teddy...
...simply sat down and thought. Where had I seen the Crimson? I was almost sure he was present in 1974 when Harvard beaf Yale, 19-13, in the final seconds of the season to claim a share of the Ivy title...