Word: seem
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While coeducational living with Harvard did not start until ten years after their graduation, Radcliffe students of 25 years ago lived under rules which, by today's standards, may seem archaic to returning alumnae. Dress codes, curfews, and signing in and out at the bell desk were regular features of daily living. "There certainly were a lot of irrelevant constraints on our behavior," says Cornelia DeNood Swayze '61, who today lives on a farm in Vermont. "We couldn't wear pants without a long coat over them...
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence sent a letter to SASC two weeks ago requesting that they remove the shanties "within the next few days." The letter read: "The interests and rights of others seem to me now to have a stronger claim on your attention and mine. There are a number of such interests and rights, but I have in mind particularly the graduating seniors and their families, for whom this week's Commencement is a unique event...
...extremely long: he was born before 1450, perhaps as early as 1438, and died in 1533. He was said to have been arrogant, prickly and a freethinker, but an exceptional teacher; his artistic disciples in Nuremberg were many. His relations with the powers that were do not seem to have been easy. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and departed for Cracow, in Poland, where he worked for nearly 20 years. In 1503, after getting back to Nuremberg, he forged a promissory note to extract money from a businessman he believed had cheated him; Stoss...
...University of California, Berkeley, now says that Type-A behavior "may not necessarily be bad for any given individual at all." Other researchers reported that many of the traits associated with Type-A behavior, including fast-paced speech and eating and a sense of urgency about time, do not seem to increase the risk of heart attack. Of all the supposedly dangerous Type-A traits, said Redford Williams of Duke University, "only the hostility aspect appears to be related to disease." Like many at the conference, Williams was disturbed by the recent findings. Said he: "It would be nice...
...soon begin guard duty at American military installations in West Germany. Eventually, 900 of the squawking waterfowl, in platoons of six to 40, will take up posts at 30 sites run by the U.S. Army's 32nd Air Defense Command. The idea is not as ludicrous as it may seem. With their acute sense of hearing, geese when startled sound the alarm by hissing, honking loudly and flapping their wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved Rome by raising a noisy commotion as the Gauls approached the city walls...