Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing small about Mr. Kenton though. ... He harangued the one man who would stir this writer's emotions, and (I hope) a few others who detest Boy Scout Brass and the rest of this cacophony they euphemistically term "music...
...English Department should announce each section's Spring reading a few days before Ab registration. The student would be assured of a more valuable course, the instructor a more receptive class. If overloadings resulted, second or third choices could be satisfied. Three hundred men changed their sections last term and the new plan would hardly boost this turnover. And the student would know where he's going...
...hope is not lost," Dean Watson explained, "for the Freshman who is not accepted this term. Much shrinkage occurs between now and next September, and many new openings are found." If everyone wants a Cadillac, he philosophized, some of the smarter people will try for another car and at least get something. The same holds true, he pointed out, when trying for the Houses...
...appropriate academic corner, and the Head Monitor (Head) takes over. "Attendance starts today," it warns. Then it launches into a list of the Social Cases: "Rows C through G for Radcliffe; graduates can sit in the rear; auditors fill in the spaces at the sides; and (New This Term) there's a special left-handed row in the right front corner. If you're hard of hearing see me after class...
...left-handed rows that turn possible system into chaos. Exceptions are fine: but when they grow too numerous, they take over the rule. Attendance comes and it goes (a month after the beginning of the term), but it fails to impress when it assigns special rows to the left-handed...