Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long since thrown off the the "agricultural school" odium before Mather moved into the presidency in 1954. But primarily through Mather's efforts the Amherst school is raising itself from the lower ranks of educational society into the upper reaches--despite the interference of the state legislature. The short-sighted efforts of a few senators on Beacon Hill brought about the president's resignation early last month, ignited public controversy, and demonstrated the tremendous changes in the seam-splitting state university...
...plan is designed both "to relieve students at a time when their other course work is most apt to accumulate heavily," and to provide the advantage of concentrated meetings over a short time, Martin explained...
Because fall and spring sessions of the course will be based on different types of work in composition, the two-month gap during the winter is not expected to pose a serious problem in continuity, according to Martin. Short, separate selections will comprise the fall reading list, while the spring reading will be in one book of expository prose...
Though a shade short of complete, Quincy is indeed thriving; and if its visiting detractors depreciate its bare rooms and its stern modernity and term it a glass menagerie they do so with a touch of envy...
...addition to these longer stories the Advocate contains a short sketch by William Kelly about life in a tenement and a demonic child. Unfortunately, the characters have hardly any chance to develop and remain somewhat awkward attitude-figures, not really belonging in this piece which, if it were to be acted, would be Method stuff...