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...decision last spring by Administrative Vice-President Edward R. Reynolds, Provost Buck, and the Deans to revert to a 1940 Corporation rule prohibiting the use of the term bill charging privilege by student organizations necessitated the change. The Corporation ruling had been relaxed since the war for solicitations by the Student Council and the Combined Charities Committee...
...spend an equivalent amount here. I think we have to modernize some of our trade relationships ... I don't know that we are going to be able to secure, at the best, an outlet for any more of our goods than we buy elsewhere in volume, unless we revert to some basis of exchange in kind...
...mouthing. In their place was a profound intensity, expressed with rigorous restraint and the most economical of gestures. Oldtimers were appalled: it seemed to them that Edwin Booth had forgotten what "drama" was. Stage managers and critics begged him not to "refine his art too much," urged him to revert to the "awful burst of passion" of his younger days. "Edwin had everything but guts," complained Walt Whitman bitterly...
...lack of integration between Ahf and the rest of General Education finds its base in practice rather than plan. The Committee envisioned a single compulsory course that would bring together G.E.'s divergent course subjects on a common plane of good writing. If the section men and Ahf instructors revert to this principle, the course can still become an asset to the program rather than a burden to the Freshmen...
Instead, the Housemasters have decided to revert to the 8 p.m. permissions, except on the Princeton and Yale weekends, when special arrangements will probably be made...