Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During her maiden voyage of a year, the 800-bed Consolation will make ports of call where invited, give native doctors a chance to learn the latest American techniques, train medical aides in such fundamentals as vaccinations and blood tests, take patients aboard for treatment, including surgery. In turn, American crew members will get a firsthand look at some of the world's ills...
...Variety complained not long ago, but last week the boys seemed determined to disprove the horrendous charge. During the shooting of Bing Crosby's Say One for Me, platoons of short-skirted, black-stockinged extras served champagne to the press. Linda Darnell got herself Page One hypnotized to learn a part. And Brigitte Bardot announced she is going to Moscow for the premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject? Said Division Head Arthur...
...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
However, even with a fresh start, New College will find it hard to inspire the style of life" which could make the College a great place to learn. It is easy to imagine students paying lip service to "intellectual excitement" while actually looking on New College as an institutionalized gut. Student seminars tend to bog down if students fail to do thoroughly the reading required for vital discussion...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, explained yesterday that the aim of the final study is "to learn as much as possible about the pyscho-social development of the college undergraduate," and that it could aid the University by pointing the way toward the development of "sound pressures for excellence...