Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council refused to consider the parking report, submitted by a planning firm to the University last fall, until the members had read it. Although it was pointed out that "we approved a more controversial report last week without reading it," (the H.Y.R.C. report) the motion to accept the document's "minimal requirements" was tabled...
...large the student's complaint is that grades are inconsistent and inaccurate, and that they do not measure the most important parts of a course. This student frankly does not care to read everything on a reading list with the same degree of attention, and he resents the College's willingness to single him out as less educated than others on this account...
...first of these is the Scholar of the House program, in which courses are optional for a group of about twelve exceptional seniors. They hold biweekly meetings, and read papers to each other, while pursuing reading and writing under the guidance of a person who is equivalent to a tutor...
...University of Leeds. Last week, after ten years of gathering material for a definitive Linguistic Atlas of England in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop...
...Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed. And Schlesinger's set pieces on the U.S. scene during the Depression read like excerpts from the New Masses of the 30s; his description of the Democratic Convention hall in 1932 is thick with cloying, selfconscious phrases: "The organ drowning out the bad times, casting out the sad times . . . HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN...