Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whereas others give their pupils only an antiquated start in French or Spanish and see them come to grief in the College Board Exams. Until the secondary schools improve their language teaching to a far higher extent or until colleges stiffen their admissions policy, it will be the latter's function to teach a good percentage of their students a foreign language...
...their goalie saw only 10 minutes of action all last season. The Crimson's main hope of repeating last year's victory will lie in the possibility of penetrating the defense frequently and effectively. A week ago against Boston College, the varsity could do the former but not the latter...
This November's Advocate contains much that, like the season, is mature as well as sophisticated. Mature writing shows signs of careful reflection about the subject--sophisticated writing, merely about the style. Alone, the former will be dull at first reading, the latter perhaps not dull before the second or third reading. The two traits well combined make for what the uninitiated call good writing; they are best combined here in an excerpt from a picaresque novel by Richard Robinson, and in at least two poems, "Epithalamion, 4 A.M." by Stephen Sandy, and "To Speed and Greta" by Richard Sommer...
...become shrouded in a fog of ignorance almost as thick as in the days of Marco Polo. Three weeks ago, determined to separate fact from fiction, TIME correspondents in 13 bureaus around the world began a mass assault on the Bamboo Curtain. Their chief weapons: interviews with scores of latter-day Marco Polos ranging from British M.P.s to Argentine M.D.s, plus a mining of the exhaustive studies of Red China now being carried out in U.S. and British universities, and intelligence findings in many nations. Piece by piece, these findings were reported to Associate Editor Bob Christopher, a longtime student...
Opinions on rent rates for the Eighth House are sharply divided between uniform prices for all rooms and a system of differentiation similar to the one which now exists in the House systyem. If the latter alternative is adopted, the problem immediately arises, how is such a differentiation to be made in a House which has no striking factors to set one room apart from another, except for the rather trivial ones such as view and proximity to the elevators that will eliminate the stair-climbing inconvenience which is a strong factor in present ratesetting...