Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wonder If Women Would Mind...
After four months of vigorous academic endeavor, the perspiring undergraduate should be allowed to scribble out his final examination in an atmosphere of monastic calm. But unfortunately for the piece of mind he is trying to set down coherently in his bluebook, the exam proctors' activities are too often distracting. Proctors parade up and down the aisles, and frequently peer intently over the undergraduate shoulder, and when the undergraduate eye moves wearily around the room for a brief rest, it encounters the fierce, accusing glare of these vigilantes...
...student attitude is apparently mirrored in the mind of Dean Bender, who maintains that the 'Cliffedweller of today is a better-looking number than her mother or aunt of 20 years ago. The inclusion of girls in lectures, while perhaps discomfiting the monitoring system, has produced no real complaints on this side of the Common. "It's just a case of the marginal student being sacrificed to the marginal Radcliffe girl," comments David Murray, Jr. '47, a Senior whose curriculum has included a fistful of joint courses...
...played with the idea as he flipped his notebook from hand to hand. A committee to solve all conflicts! In his hazy mind's eye, he imagined a crowd watching the news roll around the Times Tower and yelling II, IV, VI, VIII, who do we appreciate? So simple too--give each problem a number and get everlasting peace. Vag hurried to reach University Hall before his white hope had faded...
...pointing out that an Episcopal minister "is not the employee of the vestry or of a board of trustees. Nor does he speak for the people of his parish in the sense that he must conform to the sentiments of the majority ... To say that he may speak his mind fully in the pulpit, but to deny him the right to apply his conscientious beliefs to concrete situations and issues ... is to restrict and abridge any real freedom...