Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognized on the Amherst campus for his intellectual prowess, Hughes used to conduct discussions before a sizeable body of students in his room freshman year the night before history quizzes. Favorite pupil of popular, brilliant Professor Laurence B. Packard, head of Amherst's history department, under the inspiration of this man he has decided to take up the study of history as his life work. His brother is planning to take up architecture, leaving the field of law unexplored by this third generation of a family of great lawyers...
...which have begun. Indeed, I know how great a place idealism and scruple occupy in the British temperament. In the present circumstances, which are serious for the future of peace, France upholds that same notion of collective security by means of the covenant which is so dear to British popular opinion. I need only ask every Englishman carefully to read once more the text of the Locarno Treaty that he may exactly take stock of the obligations resulting from...
...first place to apply remedial measures is in Sociology A. If there is a desire to make this course more popular than ever and more valuable to embyro concentrators, it would be well if it climbed down from its lofty theoretical plane. As an introductory course it should survey the many fields of sociology, and the material should be illustrated by contemporary applications and be related, as far as possible, to the individual. Then the prospective concentrator would find his taste whetted, without having philosophical vagaries float over his head so early in his career. Secondly, the theoretical aspects largely...
...There was a girl at the Freshman dance Friday night (amazing) . . . with Joe ----. She was the most charming and the best looking girl at the dance . . . Mal Hallett band pick her out she was quite popular with the boys that went stag they all had a dance with her her name was Miss---- a sister of that well known band leader. Sincerely...
Since the University has made no effort to freeze into a permanent mould the relative size of the departments, there is no cause for complaint about the harshness of the quota system. Many departments have already increased their quotas, bowing to popular demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...