Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In his grey-carpeted, leather-chaired office on the sixth floor of Tokyo's Dai Ichi (No. 1) Building, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur puffed at one of his 17 pipes (including five corncobs) and ran a careful eye over the words he had penciled on two sheets...
What follows is frequently even more terrifying. The pathetic figure of the lecturer in the course cowers in its appropriate academic corner, and the Head Monitor (Head) takes over. "Attendance starts today," it warns. Then it launches into a list of the Social Cases: "Rows C through G for Radcliffe...
It's the left-handed rows that turn possible system into chaos. Exceptions are fine: but when they grow too numerous, they take over the rule. Attendance comes and it goes (a month after the beginning of the term), but it fails to impress when it assigns special rows to...
That is only a symbol, too. What has happened in general is certainly not restricted to results of the left-handed insurrection. What has happened is boredom and indifference at the results of the system. "It must," says the undergraduate, "be wonderful to be a graduate student."
Undergraduate indignation over what one student called a "high-handed" move by the University incited the Student Council last night to set up a five-man sub-committee to "study" the problem. Names of the committee members will be released today, the Council stated.