Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing seconds of the game gave the Crimson football team a 27-20 victory over Brown in 1953. Six years have passed since that triumphant November afternoon, and the varsity has yet to register another win against the Bruins. No other rival, not even Yale or Princeton, can claim such domination over the Crimson...
...Princeton," Woodrow Wilson wrote half a century ago, "is a place to find a vocation, not learn one." The crisis in General Education is the test of Wilson's ideal at Harvard. If the program cannot survive, Harvard will lose its greatest claim to liberal education.MARK DE WOLFE HOWE...
...Council warning, making her liable for one hour's "service" to the college. This service can take any of several forms; she may work in the library for an hour or perhaps wait on tables. Emphasis is placed on the flexibility of punitive measures. Each case, Council members claim, is treated individually without regard to precedent--another instance of the ineluctable cult of the individual...
...glance at the Sarah Lawrence handbook reveals a wealth of official committees and organizations in addition to the Student Council and the usual extracurricular clubs. An adviser-advisee committee, a curriculum committee, and a scholarship committee seem to provide ample justification for the claim that Sarah Lawrence students contribute to policies which at other schools remain the exclusive province of the administration...
Despite one student's claim that, "This is our home because at Sarah Lawrence, we know the school belongs to us," the truth is that student organizations are no more powerful than at many other schools. (One junior referred to "the myth that this is a student-run college.") The administration is progressive enough to redress student grievances, and the school is small enough to ensure that these grievances will be heard. A burgeoning student interest in Russian, for instance, is likely immediately to produce a Russian course, as it did last year, but the situation is by no means...