Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces junior divisional exams, a senior oral test, and a lengthy thesis, besides minor Sophomore and Junior bonus tests in Shakespeare, the Bible, and an ancient historian and poet...
Freshmen lead hard lives. They are beset by scores of minor difficulties which are often ignored and allowed to ride from year to year. Among the easiest of these to correct is the lack of telephone service for over 100 members of the freshman class. These are the residents of Lionel, Mower, and Wigglesworth, three of the Yard's most modern buildings. At the beginning of this year, one Lionel proctor was overwhelmed with requests to use his telephone and complaints about the lack of a public phone. Lionel, Mower, or Wigglesworth have as many students as several freshman entries...
Bach's Sanata in A major will open the program, followed by his Sonata in B minor and Mozart's Sonata in. C major and D major...
...maintenance of a hands-off, let's-look-at-anything policy in the University is a cause for minor self-congratulation--at least compared with the blasts from outside. But when the City of Cambridge denies Harold Laski the use of a hall because Mayour Neville considers him "pro-Communist, anti-Catholic, and anti-religious," it is a sign that all is not so health elsewhere...
...also to typify a more-or-less prevalent attitude among some of the local police. Several times recently I have been witness to some unnecessary pushing and manhandling of students by the constabulary (in one case, they were merely watching and cheering firemen who were fighting the very minor Little Hall fire) and the relish with which it was done, and the expressions on the officers' faces, were all too reminiscent of movie gangsters...