Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unique thing in a Princeton education inpreceptorial, which would be a cross between section meetings and tutorial except for the fact that it works. Almost all courses are given in two lectures and one six-man preceptorial per week, or sometimes the other way around...
Crimson booters will oppose the very best in Ivy soccer when they engage league leading Princeton at noon today on the Business School Field. So good, in fact, are the Tigers, that they haven't given up a goal in their last five games...
During Curley's term, however, there existed an "abatements racket," whereby certain property owners were given rebates on their assessment by dubious re-evaluations. If a landlord wishes to get an abatement on his assessment in Boston, he applies to the City Assessor's office and pays the fee demanded. Whether or not the abatement is granted, that fee is attached to the property owner's assessment from that year on; the money apparently goes directly to the Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly...
Some $6,600,000 of the $15,700,000 now in the McKay Endowment has not yet been allocated. Two million dollars of the new funds have already been given to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics which was established...
Jalopies are just old cars that have been stripped down to attain a maximum of speed and safety and have been given a thorough engine job. Both front and rear fenders are pared off. Outsize tires on the right side are allowed to help the driver negotiate turns. The cars take a terrific beating but the fact that they seldom have to quit a race seems to indicate how substantially they were built originally and how well they are taken care...