Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acknowledging the problem, John M. Bullitt '43, Head Tutor of the Department, pointed out that if any tutor is dissatisfied with a thesis grading assignment; he can either return it to the office, or trade with another tutor. Several teaching fellows said they had traded, to their mutual satisfaction...
...Radcliffe Student Government and the Administration produced possibly the most ridiculous set of rules ever issued at the Annex, with a list of 13 designations of activity, each requiring a specific sign-in time. Certainly "winter automobiling" from which a girl had to return by 7:30 p.m., was not overly popular, but sleigh-riders could stay out until 12:30. Protests against the system were effective, for the next year found the sign-out regulations greatly simplified. The rules at last began to resemble those of Radcliffe today, with sophomores, juniors, and seniors permitted unlimited twelve o'clocks...
...these privileges were not enough for the ambitious class of '37, whose members petitioned for the right to choose their hours of return. They felt that seniors with satisfactory academic and social records should be allowed to use their own judgment. Although the Administration was alarmed at first by the thought of such unrestricted freedom, the girls eventually prevailed. When senior privilege began in the fall of 1937, it was meant to free students from the petty annoyance of penalties for returning five minutes or even half an hour later than originally planned. The privilege functioned in this form...
...yards of bandages, mop-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 24, walked shakily from a Manhattan hospital, an operation on the infected third finger of his right hand a success. Barred from the keyboard for at least two months, tireless Van, who has pounded away at some 90 concerts since his return from Russia last May, seemed almost resigned to trying a slower pace: "My doctor is trying to make me realize I must be more selfish, conserve my energy. If I don't, I won't be able to give anything to anybody...
...last answer I can give-is to be concerned ultimately, unconditionally, infinitely . . . If, in the power and passion of such an ultimate concern, we look at our finite concerns, everything seems the same and yet everything is changed . . . The anxiety is gone! It still exists and tries to return. But its power is broken...