Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great many of the more liberal Club members are also eager to dispose of some of the stuffer rules of the Club game. Abortive movements have recently been started in some Clubs to admit ladies more frequently, and a few members feel that the Clubs would enjoy a friendlier place in the College if classmates could be brought in for meals. At least, they say, older guests should be invited more often. But these movements generally run into polite but firm opposition from the graduates, who remember a day when the Clubs were close-knit little bands of intimate friends...
Suicide: Most Frequent Crime...
Mental patients notwithstanding, it is agreed--from University Police Captain Matthew J. Toohy to House janitors--that "Harvard is a very peaceful place, the students are all very loyal to each other." The average student's worst enemy seems to be himself. Suicide is the most frequent major crime...
Author Keyes could not. Fiction, as she suggests in her preface, must not be completely fictitious, and murders are "not rampant or even frequent" in Louisiana rice fields. So, instead, Author Keyes has made her tale turn on a murder in a rice bin. The victim is a fictional cabaret singer named Titine Dargereux ("very good to look at, and the closer she came, the more alluring"). Cajun Titine titillates Rice Prince Prosper Villac, who "had her to himself beside a bayou" in return for a pair of gold slippers. So when Titine is found suffocated in the Villac rice...
...trusts girls in its buildings, Radcliffe is not quite sure whether it will trust men in hers. For Radcliffe will allow none but her own to enter her buildings after 8:30 p.m.; in addition the college forbids alcohol to be served at any times, and spirits are a frequent refreshment at meetings. Merged activities, therefore, rely on Harvard buildings for evening meetings, giving the Harvard Dean's offices the responsibility of approving locations, finding chaperones, and recording all this data in triplicate...