Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaseous juices under control after pondering the editorial ("We think that the few selections between these covers have the passion of youth, mixed also with a complexity of concern."), he will find a fine, if editable, story by David Farquhar, a rather sensational reappearance of Piero Heliczer in "Unpoem Number One," and a couple of West Indian sketches by Keith Lowe...
...planners have gotten rid of a lot of unnecessary costs and a great number of unneeded activities," he continued. Harris particularly favored the economy afforded by trimming staff personnel, courses, and departments. "Students will be paying $1000 for a $2000 education," he observed...
...close examination will not bear out the belief that professors here must write a great number of books before they gain tenure, Pusey said. Men are often promoted on the basis of skill in teaching rather than amount of publication, he added...
...filibuster, though it has in recent times assumed the cast of evil, is a respectable safeguard against the vagaries of democracy. Instead of allowing its elimination by a small group of Senators, it would seem far wiser to establish the two-thirds-of-those-present rule as the necessary number to limit debate. Such a compromise will permit the passage of needed civil rights measures without sabotaging a truly useful protection of minority rights...
...distressed to have to tell you that there have been so many application to Quincy House yours must be, at least for the moment, put aside. As you may know, the Masters agreed that each House would contribute approxmiately the same number of applicants who would colonize Quincy House. Consequently, I have been forced--since I have only eighty vacancies--to accept in each of the seven Houses only a small proportion of the men I would like to have associated with me in this enterprise. I shall, however, keep your name of the waiting list, and if new vacancies...