Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reared in poverty by his widowed mother in Yakima, Wash., near the mountains where he would later build his beloved wilderness retreat. A lifelong conservationist, naturalist and enthusiastic hiker-climber, he began challenging mountains as a boy in order to rebuild legs ravaged by polio. After graduating from Whitman College, he hitched a freight to New York City, arriving with 60 in his pocket, then worked his way through Columbia Law School-once writing a text for a law correspondence course in a subject he had yet to take himself...
...class in descending order -- descending, that is, from north to south, from the Quad to the Yard to the River Houses. The initial (1) symbolizes freshmen, who would no longer engage in "Matthews Sucks, Holworthy Sucks" contests. Instead they would be embroiled in yelling epithets across the Quad, between Whitman and Briggs, for example. The second (1) represents sophomores, who would migrate en masse to the Yard their second year under 1-1-2. There they would apparently be grouped by concentration. Finally the (2), juniors and seniors, would reside in the nine River Houses...
Allen Kirchick, of Whitman, who was arrested in Montreal last November, was found guilty of illegal possession of $333,000 worth of the coins...
...Americans," Walt Whitman wrote in the 1850s, "are going to be the most fluent and melodious-voiced people in the world, and the most perfect users of words." The line was more hopeful than prophetic. Today, many believe that the American language has lost not only its melody but a lot of its meaning. Schoolchildren and even college students often seem disastrously ignorant of words; they stare, uncomprehending, at simple declarative English. Leon Botstein, president of New York's Bard College, says with glum hyperbole: "The English language is dying, because it is not taught. " Others believe that...
Faculty members who have taught at the colleges agree that nostalgia plays a minor role in attracting alumni. Whitman says she feels that her students are people who have "promised themselves a goodie, a chance to give themselves something for themselves, away from their kids and their families"--a chance, to learn about something they're interested in. Fleming says he did not detect any nostalgia in his students, but felt they were really interested in the material. The questions and discussions were generally very good, he says, and participants had really done all the advance reading...