Word: three-term
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...sophomore year, the three-term schedule would begin to have effect, for it would mean that the student would take four courses in the fall, four in the spring, and in most cases, none in the winter term. Students taking elementary language and science courses would probably have to miss the "free" winter period, but for the rest, it would be like the present reading periods put back-to-back and doubled. It would not be similar to the present reading period, however, for now this is really just a "cram period"--and one of the greatest aids in beating...
...sure, other suggestions may come forth which have similar potential for independent study, for the House system, and for the tutorial program. But for the time being, and as our parting shot, so to speak, we would like to give our strong endorsement to this plan for a three-term year. Under it, we are certain that Harvard would provide both the depth and breadth essential to a liberal education...
...Small Part." Behind the confusion lay not only the close election but a crazy quilt of law. When Rhode Island's 1,014 voting machines were opened election night, three-term Governor Roberts led by 207 votes. But when absentee ballots from servicemen, civilian travelers and shut-ins were counted two weeks after election, Republican Del Sesto took the lead. With a final tally of almost 390,000 votes counted, the board of elections declared Del Sesto the victor by 427. Unwilling to have the office pass out of Democratic hands after 16 years' continuous control, Roberts ignored...
...Rhode Island's three-term Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts was surprisingly edged out by Christopher Del Sesto, 49, an Italian-American in a state where voters of Italian descent pack a ballot-box wallop. It was a conditional victory, since Del Sesto, himself a former Democrat and a special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Antitrust Division, won by a meager 190 votes when the voting-machine score was added up. Still to be counted: 11,000 absentee ballots...
Helen Gahagan Douglas, onetime actress and San Francisco Opera Company diva before she became a three-term (1945-51) Democratic Representative from California, said she was returning to her first love, would give a Manhattan song recital at the end of the month...