Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inevitable that most freshmen will worry about academic competition, but they soon learn the truth. "It's almost impossible to flunk out of Harvard." many freshman proctors declare each year. One half of one per cent succeeds in doing the impossible and leaves, though most return and graduate. "The fierce competition of high school doesn't exist here," said a freshman advisor in a private conversation recently. One freshman put it another way. "I could figure out what activities would make me both admired and popular in high school, and I had the ability to succeed in those activities...
...stormy history, the Harvard Union seems finally to have found its place in the College. Originally part of an effort to "democratize" Harvard, the solid building on Quincy Street caromed from function to function for almost thirty years. Then in 1931 it entered its present role as freshman dining half and more important, as the center for most organized freshman activities...
...Union's final social demise. With the new Houses an undergraduate building was no longer needed: and the University, looking carefully into Major Higginson's will, discovered that the benefactor had made allowances for the failure of his institution as a club, and promptly named its new freshman half the Harvard Freshman Union. No one was terribly sorry about this development-except one or two recent alumni who grumbled something about the $50 Life Membership appearing valid only for the life of the Union, not its members...
Central Gulf and Lykes officials predict that their barge-carrying ships will pare the round-trip time on transatlantic voyages by half, to 30 days. Since transfers of cargo between barges and oceangoing ships will be eliminated, they also expect the vessels to cut shippers' breakage and pilferage costs, and to reduce the heavy investments many shippers must now make in warehouses and dock facilities...
...subject. There they will learn about the schools that produce the French Establishment, quirks of the Code Civil, the ratio of policemen per capita (one for every 347 people) and the 1949 decree that governs a concierge's weekly cleaning of a courtyard, "devoting one minute and a half per square meter for the first forty meters and thirty seconds per square meter for the remaining surface...