Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About five years ago, the continued existence of the College of Arts and Sciences was almost a moot question. Enrollment was continuing to skid badly, and it was rumored that a few of the faculty were seriously thinking of walking away from the campus. A group of "Young Turks" was vitally interested in taking positive steps to examine and correct the situation, and the older liberal arts men, among them the retiring dean, turned the task over to them...
...favor Algerian independence, but the question deserves more than a one-minute debate before being overwhelmingly backed. Resolutions were passed on mass emotion, passed as quickly as possible to get them out of the way, passed with our two representatives (in over 1000) not having an opportunity to speak. Everyone, official delegate or not, had a voice; it was impossible to be heard over the hundreds of "extras...
...most basic way that a college molds its students is through its academic program. President Gettell feels that the standards at Mount Holyoke are "without question" as high as those at any man's college, and while most of the girls will not go quite so far in their praise, they generally feel that their academic program is excellent...
...literature unworthy of such close examination? Is it so low-grade that a hundred years must be panned to yield enough for one course? Or, more relatively the question is, does the Department of English now think this...
...manage that, so I'm out here. I like it. Steady pay, car to drive, couple of weeks vacation, fifteen days sick leave every year. I was in the Veteran's Hospital once for a month. I got paid every day." He turns to answer a question...