Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawmakers who replied agree that press coverage of state legislatures is either "excellent" (33.7%) or "good" (43.2%), almost a third of them think that newspaper stories on their activities are "slanted." Only 1.8% of the lawmakers polled think the majority of reporters covering their sessions are "dishonest." The most frequent criticisms...
Forty per cent or more students at large colleges admit to frequent cheating with "no sense of wrong-doing," a survey conducted for the Twelfth National Conference on Higher Education has reported...
...answer could not have been affirmative, for despite an occasional general report and frequent debate over trivia, very few constructive ideas have affected the Houses since President Lowell built them a quarter century ago. After initial student and alumni opposition to the then radical plan had subsided, the Houses gradually became subjects of complacent self-congratulation and reminders of an era when Harvard was smaller in size, but perhaps greater in strength...
Unless a strong tutorial system is firmly anchored in the House system, it cannot realize its potential. Ideally, the student's tutor should live in the House, where formal meetings would be regular, but also where informal contact would be frequent. Hopefully, with additional Houses and reduced crowding, the University will be able to approach the ideal, but sheer weight of numbers and dictates of the budget make a return to the system of the early '30's highly unlikely. Increased funds from foundations, and perhaps a reapportionment of some University funds, can undoubtedly strengthen the tutorial program...
Around this core, however, the play is built in a fairly routine way. Except for frequent trips in and out of a comfortable jail, the plot does not take the hero far. Nor need it. But the playwright might have steered clear of at least some of his many stock situations, which compete with abundant sets of uninspired lines in what seems to be a race for expectability. Even love rears its precious little head to add a tired touch of creeping sentimentality. And, regrettably, the author has felt satisfied with stocking the stage with a cast of cliches...