Word: forego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This upturn in the amount of contributions to PBH is the culmination of a situation which began in 1947, when the House agreed to forego its own highly-successful find-raising campaign, and join the Combined Charities Appeal. Since 1947, the amount of donations to PBH dropped from a high of $5000 to its low last year. Since it had fairly-well depleted the $10,000 savings which it had accumulated during and after the war and was now more dependent upon the donations from the Combined Charities, it was decided to stress the choice of PBH as recipient...
While Harvard is a masculine university, Summer School brings boys and girls together under the ardently defended priciples of "co-education." Three thousand students (in winter there are sixteen thousand) forego vacation. Most are here because it is easier to get into Harvard than in the winter: it's just a matter of paying. This is a way of obtaining in two months a "semi-diploma" which allows acceleration of studies, and, above all, an opportunity to stay active. As for leisure, weekends and long evenings are adequate. One gets the impression, however, that in America one never takes...
Because three years of language study in high school are generally necessary to pass Harvard's requirement, the University should say so explicitly. And admissions office information should make clear that the student who must pass the requirement in college often has to forego taking more stimulating and valuable courses. At present, the admissions office only advises as much language training as possible, and says nothing about the inconvenience of meeting the requirement in college...
Nearly 60 percent of the student body commutes and must therefore forego extra-curricular activities in favor of strap-hanging and traffic jamming...
Radcliffe women will forego their Vitamin A in the interest of weight reduction, according to Miss Marjorie Russ, Radcliffe dietitian. Annex dining halls now serve skim milk in response to student demand for fat-type milk...