Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is little wonder that the Faculty devoted part of its June meeting in 1826 to the subject of fires and issued two edicts that "no student be allowed to go to Boston on any alarm of fire" and that "no student be permitted to assist in moving any fire engine to any fire beyond the limit of this village...
...other hand, Harvard's admissions record is not a subject for shame. The largest number of secondary school applicants on record applied to Harvard last Fall; over 60 per cent were rejected. And the students admitted are by no means scholastic slouches. On Scholastic Aptitude Tests, members of the class of '56 scored from 474 to 674; for the class of '62, scores ranged from...
...history grader commented on the problem, girls seem to have a greater "vitality" in approaching subject matter. "A girl is much more likely to come up to a grader and say, I don't like any of these suggested essay topics. But what I am interested in is....' She is much more likely to take a special interest in some one problem or element of a course, and want to follow through by herself. In contrast to this, a boy will read the list of paper topics, pick out an appropriate one, then deal with it matter-of-factly...
...October, 1957, Harvard had met with the Trustees to consider the purchase of air rights over the yards, and had had engineering studies made of the possibility of suspended construction. Between then and the time of the recent letter, Pompeo said, he had no discussions with Harvard about the subject...
Finally, Elias Kulukundis publishes The Gold Girl, a story which demonstrates a fine talent for telling neatly and quickly an arresting yarn. The subject of the piece the narrator, becomes involved, over the telephone, with a fantasy girl who sheds her anonymity but cannot pierce his almost inhuman exterior. Initially, the telephonic association of the pair seems implausible because it is such an appalling coincidence. Yet as she herself emerges as the subject of her own fantasy, the elements of the tale fall tidily into place, leaving the cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells...