Word: interests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Science Interest Lost...
Freshmen tend to lose interest in science during the first year of residence, von Stade also noted in his report. Although nearly 50 per cent of '62 intended to concentrate in the natural sciences last fall, only 34.2 per cent remained in the field by spring. Only 20.8 per cent had planned to concentrate in the social sciences at the start of the Freshman year, but six months later 39.7 per cent chose fields within the area...
...within Winthrop. A typical month's calendar, crowded with student teas each Tuesday afternoon, tutor's dinners, Winthrop House galas such as the Christmas party and the spring musical, visiting scholars, and House committee dinners, leaves her only a few days in the month to attend to her old interest, politics. "I find that I can never give to the League of Women Voters a substantial, consecutive amount of time. I spend some hours at the polls now, but I no longer am able to lobby at the State House. Winthrop House and its problems have pretty well taken over...
With her children grown, Mrs. Deknatel has found time to return to her interest in nursery schools. President last year of the Association of Day Care Services, a branch of the United Community Service, Mrs. Deknatel has spent a large proportion of her time providing day care for the children of working or problem families. She considers the value of the program a preventative...
Avakian specified that in one instance he called a staff member of a show "that had expressed definite interest in the Gateways, and I was told that...pressure from the sponsors was too strong to allow us to take a chance on them...