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There is a definite propensity for politically conscious students in the College to develop into sponges. The lecture system and the penchant for extra-curricular forums produce a one-way flow of opinion on public issues here that limits student self-expression to asking questions of faculty experts and parroting their words a dinner tables. Compared with the other top Ivy schools, students, though equally well-informed, have less chance to speak out in the kind of formal groups they will encounter later in life...
When Barnes put in one-way streets, not a few Denver citizens insisted on driving the wrong way on them. "Look, sonny," cried an irascible oldtimer who was stopped by a cop, "I've been driving this way on this street for 20 years, and no traffic engineer is going to stop...
...every old grad's log of college lore is a group of stories about the shops along Massachusetts Avenue and its one-way tributaries. A random few recall the laundry establishments; others various coffee shops, but in the Harvard reminiscences of many contemporary writers and poets, the Grolier book-store on Plympton Street crops up an unusual number of times...
...second swim meet was a one-way affair for Leverett which racked up a total of 73 points, dropping Dudley 40 to 8, and Winthrop 33 to 15. The Puritans skimmed by Dudley, 27 to 21. Off by themselves in a separate meet, Kirkland rolled over Lowell...
...team system--big college still for it. Strangely enough, from what quotes have appeared in the press recently, it would seem that their wards are not much worried, however. The man who was supposed to benefit most from the two-platoon system, the player, in many cases favors the one-way ticket...