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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present is for only the mediocre, the neurotic, or those trapped by financial necessity, to remain after they have fulfilled their military obligation. And in the case of most critical skills, it takes many thousands of dollars and several years to train competent personnel. Yet private industry most often reaps the fruit of this expensive training, because less than one out of four re-enlist for a second term. Even this appallingly low figure is misleading because twice as many soldiers in the so-called "soft" skills, such as cooks or truck drivers re-enlist as those in the "hard...
Most notable are the Spring and Fall weekends which have long enjoyed an almost national fame for their intense concentration of sex and liquor into a compact and often uninterrupted 48-hour span...
...those of drinking, closing hours, chaperonage and separate sleeping facilities. Men were evacuating their fraternity rooms for their dates and sleeping, themselves, on cots in the basement. However, this was not the most comfortable arrangement for the men, so many of them decided to stay up all night, and often the girls decided to spend it with them...
...addition, Munro points to the high percentage of sophomores both on the team and among the injured, explaining that sophomores are often more enthusiastic and less experienced, and hence are less skillful at taking care of themselves...
...formal grammatical trappings that so often weigh down language instruction have been shorn away at Cornell. The aim is to teach the student a language not by making him analyze it, but by placing him, as far as possible, in an environment dominated by that language so that he may assimilate it almost unconsciously, much as he did with his native language as a child...