Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Handbook, "the effectiveness of the honor system is dependent not only upon each student's observance of the rules of the College, but also upon her willingness to share in creating that public opinion necessary for its success. All Radcliffe students are expected to assume full responsibility for adult behavior." In effect, the honor system may be divided into a spirit of honor and a system of permissions. The spirit is an ideal of conduct which has characterized the College for many years, producing a special sort of maturity in the Radcliffe student and preparing her to live under...
...west boots, came prancing after them. Marching along squarely behind their majorettes were two girls supporting a felt banner boasting the words, figured in fuchsia on a green field, "Roxville Junior Marching Band and Music Team." And directly behind them came the marching band and music team in its full strength, playing a lilting interpretation of "McNamara's band...
...affords for an escape from one's own background. While the student sloughs off childhood attributes, he is tempted to discard many of the values developed at home in favor of the new ones he imagines to have found here. But Harvard, while it spurns the richness of a full American tradition, does not provide a satisfactory Continental substitute. To the undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging from Germany's "Hegelian mysticism" to England's ubiquitous middle class muddling through Asia and Africa are still thought of as lower civilizations, admired only for primitive art and Japanese prints. This...
...basis for the study of the history and literature of the U.S.S.R.," he said, "are the special libraries of the universities. In particular the enormous Russian department of Harvard University Library numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets of all Russian pre-revolutionary journals, complete collections of works of Russian historians, complete works of Russian writers" as well as "literature and periodicals after the revolutionary period." He also noted that American libraries also received emigre periodicals, usually anti-soviet...
Dangerous Activity. Author Ashton-Warner, a teacher for 17 years in Maori schools and an amateur painter and musician, has fashioned a strikingly individual style: her sentences come tumbling forth like precision acrobats, alive with imagery, sensuous perception, heroic echoes. The full-lunged children are so noisily present that, for many, reading Spinster will seem like living next door to an all-day playground. The adults are drawn as well, with acute observation of the irritable crankiness that so often accompanies dedication, and with a tragicomic sense that it is often the most trivial despair that most startlingly changes...