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Cutting gym classes is a widespread falling, and one which can easily catch up with the "busy" student. Two cuts are allowed each term, but sometimes depend on maintaining a certain average which many girls find impossible...
...change the whole spirit of his country's schools. Students still suffer from the habits left by the 4O-year occupation of the Japanese. They still bow low to their teachers, rarely dare to question them. They still wear uniforms and caps marked with their school grade. They depend entirely on formal lectures, only to parrot them back on examinations...
There are 900 private colleges and universities in the U.S. which depend on their own resources for survival. Last week most of them were shaking in their boots. One reason had been building up over the last decade: a combination of mounting costs (up 70% since 1941) and dwindling endowments. Another was a question which sprang up with the beginning of the war in Korea and struck at the heart of the college population: How many students will the colleges lose to the armed services...
...good, because you can depend on everybody; no matter who comes into the game you know he isn't going to throw the ball away. We don't have too much set stuff, you're on you own a lot. We see who's having a good night and the ball kind of floats...
Later, Dr. Richter answered a few questions. Just what kind of explosion had he achieved? "I control the explosion," Richter replied loftily. "I can make it increase or diminish at my desire." Could the explosion be heard at any distance? Well, said the doctor, that would depend on whether there was a storm at the time. Had it been heard at San Carlos de Bariloche 6½ miles away...