Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times a week without any real student enthusiasm behind it. The paper has been unable to muster a staff even half the size of the Crimson's. Other undergraduate organizations--dramatic and language societies, glee club and band--struggle along with the support of the particularly interested few instead of flourishing as might be expected on so isolated a campus as Dartmouth...
...after seriously considering coming to Harvard, he entered Brown University in Providence. In 1941 and '42 he played varsity football. During those years, the newspapers of the United States began booming the name of Hank Margarita. "I wish had come here instead," says Dick Harlow, in retrospect. "He never beat us, but for two years he certainly scared hell...
Even the concentrator in Romance Languages and Literatures would nevertheless profit from this sort of curricular innovation. Instead of becoming familiar solely with the background of his own special field within the Department he would gain a wide departmental outlook. Similarly the concentrator in other literatures such as English or Slavic might stand to acquire a valuable additional perspective on his own area of study...
...first, poetry did not come easily to him, but now that he feels he has mastered the fundamental techniques of clear expression in verse, Mr. Kennedy finds writing a "genuine high-point of pleasure." Although he has always been a teetotaler, he supposes that composing poetry "serves instead of getting drunk...
...amusing incidents that are friendly even when they show the Bostonians' aplomb in a seamy or mundane light. Mr. Amory does not commit the error of falling into satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...