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These courses all carry double credit. They meet eight hours each week, and each student has three different instructors. Small "drill" sessions, limited to ten students each, are held three times a week...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Languages Program At Cornell Stresses Native Environment | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

...drill sessions include a fairly heavy dose of repetition of simple, everyday foreign phrases and imitation of the pronunciation of the instructor. Much of the homework consists of memorization of conversations which the students will then repeat during class. Work on grammar is done indirectly, for the most part; syntax is learned by the example of the phrases used and repeated...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Languages Program At Cornell Stresses Native Environment | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

Crimson football coach John Yovicsin put his squad through an extensive pass-defense drill yesterday as the varsity eleven prepared to open its season against Cornell this Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Sharpens Defense | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

Until 11:20 the school was quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nine Negro Students Enter Little Rock's Central High | 9/26/1957 | See Source »

PANAMA OIL hunt is exciting wildcatters. Although country has no producing well, U.S. combine of Champlin Oil & Refining Co. (50%), Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. (25%) and Southland Royalty Co. (25%) has picked up 870,000-acre concession, plans to drill two wells early in 1958. Also in the search: United Fruit Co., which recently got 1,000,000-acre concession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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