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...hotel will be used to accommodate the overflow of undergraduates next year due to the increase in the number of incoming freshmen women. The increase is a result of President Bok's decision to change the ratio of undergraduate men to women...
Nothing better can be said of a story than that it hints at a heart that could swell to fill a novel, but that it has the delicacy and the tease to contain itself as a story. There is none of the relief of such an overflow in the stories of Flannery O'Conner. The heart of her stories purrs so uniformly that one suspects it is only a machine. One lifts the hood to marvel at the mechanism. Uniform excellence, uniform inspiration. The result is that her stories differ one from the other as much as a Chrysler, Ford...
...rematch drew an overflow crowd, many perching on nearby rooftops to watch the action. After...
Gerbil Cages. Weber-style classes overflow into nearby corridors with an abundance of playthings that teachers in regular classrooms use only sparingly. There are cages of gerbils, collections of shells and leaves, art corners, carpeted areas where children can sprawl while they read. To encourage math and science, there is more than the usual amount of measuring equipment, from tape measures to stop watches. To encourage reading and writing, most of the materials have "activity cards" posing questions. Near a science book lying on a second-grade windowsill, for instance, the card asks: "Do you think our tree...
...session (it was later buried in a House committee). The bill, which passed 88 to 0, was to have provided funds to the states for low-cost meals for anyone 60 and over, particularly for the poor and members of the minorities. At a reception attended by an overflow crowd, Kennedy urged the delegates to keep up the pressure on the Administration...