Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of confusion, inertia, committee meetings and high-minded oratory, three propositions last week seemed to be taking shape...
Despite the welter of conflicting testimony, however, the CRIMSON was able to reconstruct part of the story. Apparently a crew of 'Poon editors and candidates armed with New Haven vending licenses descended on the Connecticut city Saturday morning with the intention of distributing 3000 copies of their program...
...easy to lose a person in a welter of data," Dr. Bidwell notes, "but our main concern is for the individual." Students cannot be categorized into single groups, he feels, and thus the project definitely has a slant toward individuality. Although no final results can be expected for a few years, the new Unit B may soon produce some significant insights into the inter-relation of the individual and the College...
Griswold added that law school students have to work too hard trying to absorb and digest a welter of facts. As a consequence, they have little opportunity for thought and the development of understanding. "Our present system," he said, "may give an undue advantage to a certain type of mind which can handle large quantities of details readily, while unduly minimizing the performance of some other men who may really be better potential lawyers...
...Standing was (and still is) charged with the responsibility of approving all proposals for the individual workshops. Meanwhile, it delegated much of its straight administrative work to the Office of Advanced Standing. And upon this office has now devolved the job of maintaining some semblance of order amidst the welter of different, and sometimes conflicting, ideas that surround the Freshman Program Byron R. Stookey '54, Associate Director of this office, describes its work as that of "stimulating interest in this kind of undertaking, of finding people willing to do it, of talking over credit arrangements, of creating space...