Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alumni Bulletin should ever oppose an improvement of the College's athletic facilities might have seemed preposterous, however, to someone reading the publication back near its founding in 1898. For the Bulletin was born with an admitted athletic preoccupation, and in a sense its history has been simply a gradual transition of interests from Soldiers Field and the river to University Hall and Widener...
Even though the maid cut will be gradual, service will decrease next fall. He explained, "Maids will have to be shifted from House to House, to fill the gaps...
Emerson added that the slightly decreased number of applicants is indicative of a gradual leveling off of interest after the unusually great enthusiasm for study in medicine following World War II. He noted that interest in medicine is still 50 percent greater than it was in the pre-war period...
...minor Partita is bound to fall short. The notorious difficulty of the piece makes it virtually unplayable, and any evaluation must be based on a comparison with some mythical perfect performance. Criticism thus becomes even more subjective than usual. Mr. Fuchs' idea of the music as a gradual build-up in tension followed by a gradual release, with regularly-spaced interludes of quasicommentary, is extremely provocative. His failure to sustain and integrate this conception was caused primarily by the physical demands of multiple-stops and prodigious leaps that frequently leave interpretation behind...
There is doubt that the length of scarves, per se, is the only reason for the fad. Foresighted students see in them a return to primitive modes of dress. If a gradual broadening accompanies lengthening, scarves could become sort of northern hemisphere sarong (with appropriate college colors). As they are, the scarves could replace conventional hardware in summer and winter, done up like Far East turbans...