Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper chaperones are picked for fraternity functions (women cannot be in the fraternities unless there are chaperones present), the punch bowl downstairs will be pure. The one upstairs won't. The Middlebury women have forced this. They prefer it to two separate dispensaries downstairs, one for Middlebury women, one for others. Imported dates are under no drinking restrictions...
...Amherst does not have all great men, it has some of them, and many good men. One of the "greats," Professor Packard, teaches the only remaining lecture course ("European Civilization") in the freshman-sophomore curriculum. Most of the good men--including professors--prefer to take one of the small sections in the basic course pertaining to their field. For at Amherst the method of teaching is that of intimate student-teacher contact through small always under 25 classes. In English J-2, for instance, every associate professor in the English department must teach a section. Although Amherst might not have...
Despite the Harvard Summer School brochures, which picture summer in Cambridge as a paradise of enchanting weather and thrilling recreation, local students on vacation usually prefer to leave the exotic Yard for more everyday locations like Paris, Milan, or Madrid...
...limited to excursions across the Atlantic, however. For those who like steamboat accomodations that are nearly as expensive, but much easier to get, there are trips to various South American ports. An average fare here is $173, one-way, from Boston to Caracas, Venezuela, for students who prefer to do their traveling on land, and still cover considerable distances, bus companies offer continental tours ranging in price up to $899.92 for a 60-day trip to California and the Canadian Rockies...
...council. The council had argued that Coventry needs more schools, homes and health centers before men and materials can be spared for church building. But Sir David Eccles wrote to its lord mayor: "Can we be sure that a cathedral would be so useless? Is it always right to prefer things seen to things unseen . . . ? The echo of bombs which destroyed your city was heard around the world. We cannot tell how many people are waiting, in this country and abroad, for this church to rise and prove that English traditions live again after the blitz. The threat...