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Word: prefect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's restructuring of the freshman prefect program has boosted prefects' morale and visibility among Yardlings, but freshmen say that the enhanced prefect program has not significantly improved their first-year experience...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Improved Prefect System Confronts Yard's Apathy | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...think the program is definitely superior to what it was last year because of the guidance," prefect veteran Isabella E. Fu '88 of Lowell House said. "Last year we didn't have too many meetings, and we weren't introduced to our prefect units until two weeks into the semester...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Improved Prefect System Confronts Yard's Apathy | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...This year, we were introduced earlier and people were more receptive, instead of saying, `Who are you?'" said Fu, adding that almost every prefect is more active than last year...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Improved Prefect System Confronts Yard's Apathy | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...Berkeley professor said that improving the hand-eye machines has remained mainly an academic quest, because businesses would rather prefect computer systems they have already invested in than support innovation in the field...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

...hated the church on principle, liked him. Indeed there are Zurbarans whose pure literalness might strike a modern eye as surrealistic; for example, his figure of the Sicilian martyr St. Agatha daintily bearing on a platter her breasts (which had been cut off by order of a wicked Roman prefect) looking like two pale pink, heavenly scoops of gelato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From The Dark Heart Of Spain | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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