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...houses, it has had additions, interpolations and subtractions through the years, and like many of the dwellings, it once served as a boarding house itself. Oil furnaces have made the constant struggle to keep warm only a memory, though most housewives insist that their kitchens have at least a token woodstove for toast and rice-pudding making...
...student. This is already the case in a few instances. Perhaps if a student did more of his work in his field of concentration through tutorial, if the material covered were selected on the basis of individual interests rather than departmental regulations, if the tutors could demand more than token reading assignments, if they refused to ignore and thereby encourage student indifference, then tutorial might begin to realize its potential as an educational instrument...
...hapless M.I.T. Junior Varsity five could put up only token opposition last night, as the Crimson JV team romped to its third straight victory, 68 to 34, at the loser's court...
Until the end of August, 1957, Fund solicitations will continue as usual, and a single letter will be sent out in the spring of 1958 asking for a "token contribution to the Fund, Reynolds said. After June 30, 1958, solicitations will resume as usual, but in the intervening ten months solicitors for the Program will try to see every College alumnus in person, and the Fund will be de-emphasized...
...seemed clear that the session had backed him up. He signed a decree suspending for six months all activities of both the November Front and a trouble-stirring right-of-center organization called the Lantern Club. On top of that, he ordered short-term house arrest as a token rebuke to a pair of politicking army generals...