Word: student
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear stream of water into a quiet pool. Just above the old castle site stand five new, wooden, tile-roofed buildings. It is the new Ryukyus University, Okinawa's first, which the military government's Education & Information Office has finally managed to open. It has a student and faculty body of 90; cases of books from the U.S are pouring into its neat library. Tall, straight-featured, 21-year-old Yasukane Agarie, the library's temporary custodian, smiled: "This university makes us all happy and hopeful...
After 90 years, Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. had ample reason to be proud of itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...
...Several schools get around the fair trade requirements and provide a good saving for their students on books used in school courses," Wyant said last night. "I want to find how they get around the various problems involved, and what discounts they got from publishers." He sent the questionnaires through the College's National Student Association chapter to various other NSA member schools...
...warehouses of Back Bay, yellow chrysanthemums fester in obscurity. Not a single Harvard student was jailed in a riot last night. Three Radcliffe girls will got without dates this evening...
...only solution the British government, which sets the pound limit, can offer is that the men attend English colleges. It points out that every pound taken out of the country further weakens her economic position. This is good economic sense; it is unfortunate that the ideal of student exchange has suffered as a result...