Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their length and because their higher thought content requires more careful deliberation from the grader. This, however, is not a valid argument against having more papers in courses. If the college considers papers to be a really valuable stimulus to education, it must hire more graduate students to perform the drudgery of grading. In this way, it will develop the ability to work out a problem thoroughly instead of the now prevalent hour exam spirit of gamesmanship...
Like any G.P., DeTar has his share of emergency calls. But night calls have dropped off ever since he was felled by virus pneumonia ten years ago. Although he performs minor surgery, e.g., cyst removals, suturing cuts, in his office and performs tonsilectomies in a nearby hospital, he refuses to perform bigger operations. "A doctor should not do major surgery if he's not trained in it. I'm not," he explains. After home-delivering some 300 babies, DeTar gave up obstetrics in 1952 to devote more time to A.A.G.P. duties, but he still handles pre-and postdelivery...
...wife are the only physicians in Holdingford, Minn, (pop. 500), thus "do everything" from obstetrics to gall bladder operations and would welcome more G.P.s. Dr. Charles Savarese is up against harsh hospital restrictions in Washington, D.C., but at Bethesda's Suburban Hospital he can, deliver babies and perform minor surgery. For all the restrictions, says Savarese, "we generalists do pretty well in Washington. This is a specialists' town, and competition among them is terrific...
...dining hall retains its comparatively jovial atmosphere, the athletic teams, with few exceptions, continue to perform well (Winthrop is currently leading in the Straus Trophy competition), and the recreation and common rooms still attract varied groups of students...
...Denmark and Sweden let it be known that they could not make it, and presidential assistants rummaged through the White House last week without finding an invitation. Prince Rainier also told newsmen that New York's Cardinal Spellman would be on hand to watch the Bishop of Monaco perform the wedding. But the cardinal's office gently denied...