Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of "vocationalism," Monro last month suggested that seminars might give a freshman a greater feeling of intellectual participation than a 50-minute prepared lecture. At the core of the seminar would be a freshman "thesis." Speaking to the last point, Nash noted that freshmen already face a plethora of term papers...
...should be an especially rough afternoon for Goalie Chris Stone. He will have to ward off the plethora of Princeton shots sure to come his way without the assistance of Lenny Keyes, the team's outstanding defense man, who cannot make the trip...
...University official yesterday suggested that a central housing agency be created to replace the plethora of Harvard and Cambridge organizations which provide listings of available apartments and boarding houses...
...problem, a sentiment in which his audience concurred. The Democratic leaders were not much more helpful. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, contented himself and apparently the labor chiefs, with a promise to form another study group to get to the heart of the unemployment situation. But there is already a plethora of study groups working in the field, and it seems unlikely that the Texan's task-force, approval of which he hurried through Congress, will come up with startlingly new conclusions or solutions...
...Zoology. This year, for example, papers are being written on such diverse subjects as the later poetry of Yeats, the sociological and psychological aspects of war, Central Rhodesian federation, Karl Kraus (a Viennese journalist), and Morroccan nationalism; one Scholar is writing short stories. As Yale sorely lacks a plethora of creative writing courses, many prospective writers have taken advantage of the program to test their capabilities; in fact, there have usually been more than one creative writer in the program...