Word: stepdown
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...week-day night in the stepdown lounge of the Graduate Center, only a few students can be found in the overstuffed couches, thumbing through magazines, listening to music. Upstairs in the grill, a few more drop in for a quiet mid-evening beer. Outside, the winding ramps between dormitories are quiet, and inside the dorms, little can be heard above the occasional clacking of a typewriter. The graduate students--almost to the man--are studying. Not studying for hour exams, or cramming for a day's memory, but studying with a broad view to the doctoral examinations: a complete review...