Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's Student Council will turn its meeting-time clock ahead today, as Council members gather in Longfellow 13 at 4 p.m., instead of at the usual 1:10 p.m. hour...
Cocktailers Gather...
...from the others--sort of secretive. He got it across to us that he wanted to sell us a gold ring. We told him we weren't interested, but he kept after us, getting more and more persistent. After awhile he got all hot an fidgety, and let us gather that he had stolen this ring. Naturally this made us agree to inspect...
...insists, in Britons assuming a cloak of false modesty about these many talents. "These are very necessary traits . . . nowadays, not at all to be apologized for." In the world's present state, "there is nothing more dangerous than the current cant phrase, 'We must gather together all the peace-loving nations.' Unless the peace-loving nations can induce one or two war-loving nations to join the club, it is simply an invitation to be plundered. The larger the assembly of sheep the more it appeals to the wolves...
Professor Perry Miller is giving a Humanities Course called Classics of the Christian Tradition. Last year, I gather, he used a class-participation technique in this course. He frequently got to his points via answers to questions he threw at students chosen from his little list. This system forced the students to keep up with their work, which bothered many of them. The real trouble with the method, however, is that it makes students listen to each other, which is always dull, when they could be listening to Professor Miller, which is often fascinating and--this I judge...