Word: princeton
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Harvard is behind because it never kept up. "We did not take advantages of the lessons learnt in World War II," Frohock says, "while such colleges as Cornell, Wesleyan, and Princeton did." Cornell, for instance, has an ambitious new program of language teaching which it started experimentation on as early as 1946. The question then must be: why did Harvard allow itself to become stagnated in an ivy-encrusted system first instituted by some English private school headmaster when it became evident that there were quicker and more efficient ways of learning a language...
Army, Navy, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Cornell have all improved over last year and will be much harder to beat. "These teams will be as closely knit as any season in the past," Assistant Coach Bill Brooks said, adding that each varsity meet is likely to be extremely close, going down to the last relay...
...Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale...
...latest novel is a massive pyramid of prose raised over the mummified form of a minor Pharoah of finance named Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses. It is part of Alfred Eaton's tragedy that he cannot unravel these possessions in time to find himself. It is part...
...College (Princeton) releases Alfred from family pathos and small-town parochialism. O'Hara, a noncollege man who lives in Princeton, lavishes a special nostalgia on the college scene where an Ivy Leaguer becomes a species of feudal knight surrounded by noncollege varlets...