Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hills of the Berkshires and the concerts of Tanglewood this weekend for 40 Summer School students--and probably for many more...
Princess Margaret and R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, the suitor she rejected for tradition's sake, left London separately, but at the same time, for a country weekend. Margaret was a house guest of Viscount and Lady Hambleden, youthful (26 and 22, respectively) chaperons, if such be needed. Though Townsend's cronies were darkly evasive about his whereabouts, wilder speculation was that he and the Princess were having one last reunion before Townsend, for whom the course of true love proved impassable, departs on an around-the-world car tour (TIME, June 18) all by himself...
Rojas' favorite weekend hideout is his luxurious estate at Melgar. Since he acquired the place, millions of government pesos have gone into improving the highway that links it with Bogota, the nation's capital, and millions more have been allotted for a rail spur from Melgar to the nearest railroad trunk...
...institution of learning. By closing its libraries on Saturday afternoon and Sunday it is forcing on the student the attitude that learning is a job separate from the student's life, a five days a week and half-day Saturday job. The University's libraries should be open all weekend for the many who do not believe that education stops from 1:00 p.m. Saturday to 8:45 a.m. Monday. Margaret Sue Diehl
Tanglewood and the beaches are fine places to spend the weekend. But some students come to the Summer School to study. What are the chances of being able to study in weekends during the Harvard Summer School session...