Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the White House family last week of President Eisenhower. "I wish I knew all the reasons. It's definitely a change of mood." Whether the President's get-going fettle was brought on by complete recovery from his stroke, or by the feel of spring, or by other causes, it showed unmistakably in stepped-up work done (TIME, April 14), in showings-at press conferences and at his desk-of a new jauntiness and zest for issues...
Comparative Literature 162, "Valery, Rilke, and Yeats," an undergraduate course, will be taught in the Spring by Paul M. DeMan, lecturer on Comparative Literature...
What promises to be a long, hard spring will begin for the varsity track team this afternoon when they meet powerful Army at West Point...
German 113, "Schiller," is a half course to be taught in the Spring by Reginald H. Phelps '30, lecturer on German. Also German 152, "Rilke," will be offered in the Fall by Bernhard Blume, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture...
Professors, moreover, are somewhat uncomfortable when called upon to defend this rite of Spring whereby graders are generally anonymous, grades frequently secret, and theses oftimes hidden. One traditional explanation is proferred by several uneasy English professors who recall that once upon a time an undergraduate grabbed one of their colleagues by the lapels and demanded some sort of satisfaction for an obvious injustice. Each department has a favorite explanation of its own, but professors are usually agreed that the necessity of having to explain, or even defend, a grade is an upsetting procedure...