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...distinguished freshman-year record may not be enough to get English re-elected. In a blue-collar district that is predictably neither Democratic nor Republican, he fights resistance from the Democratic National Committee and the AFL-CIO for his support of the Contract with America and the G.O.P. plan to reform Medicare. He needs to persuade voters that his loyalty to them outweighs his devotion to a Republican fiscal agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: PENNSYLVANIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...defenseman and freshman-year roommate Mitch Olson adds. "Wade's great; he's not obnoxious or loud like a lot of goalies. He takes things a little easier...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Wade Lau | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...write not as a spouse but as someone who has been concerned for many years about freshman-year teaching and the desperate need for excellent and caring small-group teaching in this University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Fiction | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...while we have been here. Both males and females have a strong urge for the type of physical activity brought on by booze. The party tonight brings back memories of freshman year. By about 3 a. m. couples are making out all around me. Like high school. Or a freshman-year pickup...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: A Harvard Boy's Life at Radcliffe: Finding What Girls Are All About | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...eight years, there was a great deal of "favoritism" in the assignments to popular Colleges. If a student had a relative who had been in a College, either as a faculty associate or an undergraduate, the Master felt "morally obligated" to admit him. Even such adventitious contact as a freshman-year job in a College dining hall could guarantee a suite in the same College 12 months later. Also, "the Masters had friends and classmates who would put pressure on them to admit certain students." In short, despite the appearance of a free choice, "the system had no real integrity...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Yale's Variation of The House System | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

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