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...could see how someone might decide that it's appropriate, that is gets the gist of the piece across clearly and succinctly...
...gist of the policy is to get the tutors to eat in their own houses. Eating meals in the dining halls provides an opportunity for tutors to get to know students," said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 in a telephone interview last night...
...native New Yorker, Gewanter studied writing and literature at Madison and Berkeley. His own college projects tended towards the esoteric, including a one-act drama starring a deconstructionist who is charged with writing a bomb threat. (The gist of the excessively postmodern plot is derived from Foucault's "What is Author?" essay. It will not be airing after Married With Children anytime soon...
...least I'm not the only one who's bewildered by Wolf's work. Phillip McKee, co-chair of the Lesbian. Bisexual and Gay Graduate Students association, which sponsored the show, told me after viewing the exhibit. "I didn't quite get the gist...
Rudenstine's decision, the gist of which is unknown at this time, will likely not affect admissions material distributed to early action applicants in December. Whether information on ROTC will appear in admission letters will "depend entirely on the timing," according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...