Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murdock felt that there should be no obstacle to studying without formal grades. He noted that it is possible to do so in the graduate school, with the school merely certifying that the individual has been studying...
...friend's description of the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, that day in the 1830s, the more excited became Manhattan's great Philanthropist Peter Cooper. Once a $25-a-year apprentice to a coachmaker. Cooper had risen to fame and fortune with only about a year's formal schooling behind him. But in Paris, according to his friend, there were hundreds of poor young men willing to live "on a bare crust of bread" to attend the Ecole. As the friend went on, Cooper began to think: "How glad I should have been to have found such...
Jean Berthier is the public prosecutor of the town of Bergerane. One hot Sun day he is lying on the bank of the Rhone River, his young fiancée asleep in his arms. Brilliantly successful at 30, he is a stiff and formal fellow who would feel embarrassed just to be caught in public with his jacket off. A young girl, evidently injured in a fall from her bike, comes limping down to the river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action...
...felt that the Graduate School should try to get the man who will be a genuinely well-educated and liberal man, regardless of his field," and who, after graduation, will continue to expand himself intellectually even though his formal "schooling" is over...
Occasionally however, these responsibilities can become an irritating burden. Last year, for example, on the night of the Spring Formal, Everett's dishwasher broke down and Jini Coggi '57, the social chairman, had to spend the evening bailing out the flooded kitchen. But, generally, the machines are pretty regular, imposing a uniform degree of responsibility on each girl, usually born with a certain amount of cheerfulness. Around examination time, however, tensions frequently rise, and the advantage in having a few close friends instead of many nodding acquaintances can come up for serious second thought...