Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present system of rewarding big bids with proportionately large grants is maintained, the next round of allotments will certainly become a grand farce. One president of a small college threatened last week to ask for $.5 million in order to get what he needs. Realizing that the funds it receives will be mathematically proportionate to its request, each college will attempt to outbid the others. The request system will cease to be merely unfair; it will become absurd...
...worries of the age; he synthesizes the intellectual (Charlie Brown), the successful (Elvis Presley), and all other concerns into a libidinal lyric. One big bopper says more about America than Max Lerner; and the CRIMSON, never unpercipient of current social and intellectual trends presents its quasi-annual song round-up. Harvard if not singing should keep swinging...
...gather 'round cats and I'll tell you a story...
...calmness last week. Where conversation at Commons and in the clubs hinged on "bids," "sections" and "preferentials," Lodge members could talk of anything from world affairs to classes and even--and this is a crime in club circles--grades. One Lodge member contends that this difference exists all year round; in the clubs, he says, no-one discusses anything but weekends, dates and dances; at the Lodge, it is possible to discuss literature, philosophy and politics...
Gone were the shroudlike lines of the chemise and the rib-pinching high waists of the Empire line. In their place was a natural, gaily colored (mint green, bright red and blue, fuchsia and violet) silhouette with lines round enough to brighten the dullest male...