Word: p
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John P. Van Schalwyk '63 led the debate against the disclaimer, condemning it as "thought control." His main opponent was James F. Scott '63, who felt the University should not deprive students of the free choice to take the loans if they wanted them...
...Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President, said yesterday that "it has always been University policy to behave as if Harvard were subject to the zoning ordinances." University construction has conformed to requirements wherever possible, and when any discrepancies have occurred in regard to height or set-back, it has applied to the Board of Appeal for a variance ruling...
...life at Penn--the Franklin ideal and the largely self-styled "spirit of Pennsylvania"--show at once both the best and worst of the Philadelphia university. On the one hand there is the recognition of the value of learning as shown in the laudable efforts of president Gaylord P. Harnwell to raise the school's standards. On the other, many students refuse to grow up; this immaturity, born in the undergraduate body and often unwittingly cultivated by the faculty and administration, makes the University of Pennsylvania seem at times like high school revisited...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P-L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...