Word: tend
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Shoot the President. All this freedom has consequences, some not good. Diverse and isolated, Cornellians tend to live in their own little ruts. They flock to 14 sororities and 53 fraternities, but the mix is mostly emulsion. Bright ones complain of faculty inattention. In fact, most arts students go through without seminars, independent study or senior theses...
...bones, picked clean by the sharks that come there to feed. The natives take advantage of the fact by catching the sharks and selling their fins to rich Chinese, who prize fins as aphrodisiacs. But the shark fishermen pay a price for their enterprise: scrabbling over the beach to tend the drying fins, each shows the stump of a leg, a maimed hand, the nub of an elbow...
Pressures at Smith are not confined to the classroom; conformity in manners, ideals, and dress is a hallmark of the Smith student. All colleges tend toward an undergraduate uniform, but nowhere is it more widely and carefully adopted than Smith. The well-groomed Smithie is moderate in dress, neither ostentatious nor sloppy; she looks classically well-scrubbed and cheerful in her Pepsodent smile, Pringle sweater, Ship-n'. Shore blouse, and pleated plaid skin. Wool knee socks and brown Bass Weejuns complete the basic picture...
...probably won't be the AL champion, but they won't be the League doughnut either. A lot depends, of course, on the results of the trades the Sox made over the winter. Most of the newcomers are from the National League, though, and National players often tend to benefit from the switch...
Although the Deans have ensured that Eliot has approximately the same proportion of public and private school boys as the other houses, the House has attracted boys whose whose temperaments and tastes are usually associated with a private school background. Its members tend to take life less seriously than those in other houses and, although anxious to thrust ahead, do not like to express this anxiety too openly. They form a congenial, closely knit group and participate faithfully in house activities--this year Eliot is a leading contender for the Strauss trophy that goes to the over-all leader...