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...recommendation is the University catch up with its cultural time lag and keep pace with the realities of masculine and feminine life today by initiating courses on human relations. They would provide young people with knowledge and understanding of the situations they are faced with and how to deal with them. I have made the suggestion to several members of the faculty. They expressed the thought to me that such instruction would interfere with the private lives of the students. Quite the contrary, I believe higher education does not stop with ancient and modern savants but should relate the individual...
Because Harvard started to lag, Wisconsin was able totally two key goals--the last with just four seconds left on the clock--in the last six minutes of the contest. "That last goal was a very big goal," Badger Bob said after the game, dragging out the "very" for all it was worth...
Perceptions, however, often lag behind reality. The idea of a California theater is gradually taking hold. "Los Angeles may be a long way from being a rival of New York," says Shank. "But it will be, it will...
...There has been a lag in the asterisk policy, "Dean Fox said, adding that "it does take a few terms to take effect." "Students who have one asterisk don't want another one," he said...
...euphoria, this recent merger activity is really just a result of the decade-long lag in stock values, which has made it cheaper for firms to buy existing companies rather than build new factories. Says Robert Stovall, director of investment policy for Dean Witter: "Adjusted for inflation, the stock market has never been higher than...