Word: ille
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Calcutta University, the world's largest (enrollment: 90,000), is so completely a factory that it runs classes in three shifts a day. Its urban colleges are ill-lighted and have no recreational facilities. The only gathering places are coffee shops and tea shops, where Marx-hipped hotheads often dominate the conversation. Classes are so perfunctory and lectures so mechanical that many students leave after roll call; a friend can always supply notes and, more important, provide names and pages of books the professor referred...
...with his whole future hanging on the results of periodical tests, the average student works only to pass his exams. To supplement their incomes, badly trained professors assist crammers by writing and selling notebooks and "Made Easies." At that, so many students fail exams-partly because they arrive ill-prepared in the English that remains the medium of instruction-that colleges sometimes add a "grace mark" to the exam results to raise the percentage of passed candidates...
...dollars a month, less twelve and a half cents deduction for the Soldiers' Home," and the odds against a man's getting back from a patrol were a little better than those for eventually getting to the home. The particular buffalo soldiers of the title are an ill-horsed detachment of Negro volunteers, all former slaves and displaced since the Year of Jubilo when Mr. Lincoln set them free. Three, serving their second hitches, are semi-pro by their own, if not their lieutenant's, reckonings; the other seven include homeless kids, a mulatto misfit, an aged...
Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane Theater: Remains to Be Seen, with Denise Darcel...
Highland Park, Ill., Tenthouse Theater: Last season's Broadway hit, Rashomon, with last season's Broadway star, Sessue Hayakawa...