Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sizable group of faculty to the 'Cliffe. These offices will probably be given to younger faculty who are connected in some way--perhaps as tutors or advisers--with Radcliffe. Predicting the effects of this provision, Mrs. Bunting observes: "You would never expect to walk into the library now and stop to talk with a faculty member; but in the new Center, it will be a common occurrence...
...handful of daredevil stoppeurs have developed their own system; the hiker slaps the side of a moving car, then quickly falls down. The driver screeches to a stop and out of fear and sympathy lakes the traveler aboard, or so survivors report. A commoner, and safer, technique is to spot the license of an oncoming car and whip out a national flag to match...
...given moment, the airlines estimate, some 2,500 pieces of U.S. luggage are somewhere they shouldn't be (a total the U.S. airlines consider not unreasonable in view of the 100 million items they handle each year). Nothing much, apparently, can be done to stop losing them, but this month 20 American airlines began to do something about finding them faster...
...some courses, they take copious notes; others they stop attending after the first meeting. They generally begin studying for exams late in the year, and enjoy it so much so they wish (a little) they had started earlier. Even as seniors, they have not settled on a pattern of studying, but Skip around erratically...
Skippers choose courses for mixed motives, trying out professors or fields that seem appealing. They often change fields, and never stop wondering if they are in the wrong one. They feel vaguely wronged by the system, but are not positive it isn't their own fault. During reading period they are the most perplexed of all students; the most uncertain of what to do. And yet their confusion is not particularly painful. For the Skippers are more interested in choosing a way, in improvising and experimenting, than in succeeding in a chosen way. A cross between Hamlet and Charlie Brown...