Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enrollees. Lewis D. Leet, Chairman of the Department of Geology, said last night that probably no appeal would be made since the University provides monitors for large lecture courses like Geology 1. Leet said that primarily the small section courses, in which the professor would have to call the roll, will ask for exemption...
...minutes, gazing with calm wonder at a sky like a forget-me-not with small thin clouds like puffs of frosty breath. No doubt it had forgotten the sky in the last few minutes and was interested to rediscover it. But at last it grew bored, and tried to roll over. To do this, it held its arms and legs as rigid as those of a Dutch doll and jerked them violently in the air. These exertions produced only a slight rocking movement in its perfectly round body, of which the pro portion to its limbs was about that...
Immediately after this incident, the Faculty had to vote between a morning roll call, or checking of attendance in classes. They chose the latter...
While report of upperclass attendance in these courses satisfies a Dean's hankering for data, it certainly defies consistency. No one marks the roll at upperclass lecture courses. It is presumed that after a year's exposure to the Harvard lecture system, students know how much they can gain from it. They may prefer to spend the lecture hour doing the reading or sipping coffee, and as long as the practice doesn't lead to probation, it's their privilege...
...delegate belonging to both groups was seated of course, and the trading concerned which of the other three--Mr. Julia was ignored on account of his absence--should be placed on the temporary roll. At length they all agreed on a deal, authored by one of the Puerto Ricans, which seated Romani from the legal delegation and Blenes from the rump as the second and third men, provided that the latter be the delegation's chairman and its contribution to the all-important credentials committee...