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...they should not eat meat." And Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Food Services, points out that if the plan is simply imposed on students who have no real understanding of the purposes behind it, "it'll be too bad if they just run off to McDonald's and swell that 15-billion figure...
General Ches nut said many people were light hearted at the ruin of the great slave owners. He quoted some one: 'They will have no Negroes now to lord it over! They can swell and peacock about and tyrannize now over only a small parcel of women and children, those only who are their very own family...
...graduate students say an attempt to increase faculty-student contact by cutting down on the use of teaching fellows will swell student-teacher ratios and might limit options for tutorials...
Saturday evening began with Debussy's Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, a liquid-sounding piece that flows in one continuous sweep. Wolff's interpretation evoked a number of mesmerizing images. However, the performance did not swell and gradually overflow in its fullness from one section to the next, but rather began de novo each time new instruments were signalled to play...
...South to report on the life of the rural poor, wrote that his favorite things about going to school at Harvard were "Boston Common with an actor and hangover and peanuts and pigeons, midafternoon; the New England Boxing Tournament, for steady unsparing (if unskilful) ferocity; East Boston for swell houses, stunted trees struck through with mordant street lamps, and general diapidation...