Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the attitude of the students' goes far to make the jobs pleasant. "There's not one student I wouldn't want living in this House," Thelma says. "These kids are so appreciative. Just the other day. I fixed the milk machine for a boy, I thought he had gone and sat down, when he suddenly came up and thanked me." Pat agrees. "There's more closeness in this House than in the other Houses--it's like one big happy family." She disappears into the kitchen and returns a moment later with a plain pink card bearing the inscription...
Basic training remains rigorous. "For the first four months I thought I had died and gone to hell," says a Scandinavian recruit. "The legion was intent on breaking me down until I could neither think nor move until somebody ordered me to." Officers think nothing of ordering a legionnaire to run-not march-through 35 miles of mountain country, and then having the man practice parachute drops the next morning...
...biggest change in New England boarding schools is, in a word, girls. Since 1970 Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton. Hotchkiss, Middlesex and St. Mark's have all gone coed. With the girls came the easing of once strict daily regimens. Traditionally, schools such as Groton and St. Paul's tried to imbue their boys with a "muscular Christianity" through spartan rigor in almost monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going...
...humorless," says English Department Head Kelly Wise. "Now there is more laughter and joy and excitement than there was a few years ago." And every bit as much schoolwork. The days when more than half of Andover's senior class sailed into Yale or Harvard are long gone. Andover still gets 40% of its seniors into Ivy League schools, but the competition for "thick letters" on "Black Monday"-the day in mid-April when Ivy acceptances arrive-is still fierce...
...criminal," says Maltby, "but a lot of Waller's music is simply gone. The music publishers don't have it, and nobody knows if it exists anywhere." To assemble their show, Maltby and Horwitz unearthed 75 songs...