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...Administration has grown fond of the Sophomore Standing program, so fond that University Hall is likely to greet with great reserve any action to abolish it. The Student Council Committee that actually did recommend abolition realized well enough that the apparently more valuable and certainly more expedient course would have been to cry for improvement of the program's weaknesses...
...returned to Laurel with her, is now chairman of the board of the First National Bank. After school Leontyne would sometimes wander over to the large green house to visit "Big Auntie" Everlina Greet, the Chisholms' maid (before that, she had been the Wisners', served the two families for 45 years before she retired four years ago). Leontyne would play with Jean and Peggy, the two older of the three Chisholm daughters. They were, she recalls, her "other family," and she was their "chocolate sister...
...film begins, the local pastor, hauled into court for a travesty of a trial, is sentenced to five years at hard labor. The new pastor (sensitively played by Michael Gwynn) arrives. At once an official campaign of petty harassment gets under way. When the congregation gathers to greet its new leader, the police perfunctorily break up the party; church buildings, the inspector coldly explains, are licensed for religious education, not for social gatherings. When the pastor refuses to sign an official peace petition, hoodlums decorate his sidewalk with a political expletive: WARMONGER! When he visits a farmer who persists...
Harvard is a cold place, the foreign student is likely to find. Its undergraduates are not often cheerily gregarious, and they do not greet him with warm hearts and delighted cries at the airport where he disembarks after a long flight from Pnom Penh...
...want to rebuild Cambridge." Cambridge, he says, has more open space than any city around, and he has taken upon himself the task of filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle Square. The new management is already planning to add several more stories, and the parking is just fine...