Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in general studies. The English Department bases its recommendations almost entirely on marks. Other departments require a strong excuse for not doing a thesis, fearing that the degree may degenerate into an escape-hatch from theses. Still others, such as Economics, have virtually done away with the degree, except for veterans who returned to college too late to write a thesis...
...automatic machines at the Boston treasury office was the cause of the trouble. It started missing a cylinder last week, and before the difficulty was detected it had issued 500 GI subsistence vouchers completely made out except for the amount...
Ward 6, Precinct 3: This includes every undergraduate House except Dunster, as well as the Yard and the Law School quadrangle. It is bounded on the South by Memorial Drive, on the North by Jarvis st., with Boylston st. and Massachusetts ave. forming one side and Warren at. the other. The voting booths are in the Lincoln sq. fire station (next to Memorial Hall...
Somebody said he lived at 10 Apathy Way and was undecided, and somebody else said that he had to vote for Thurmond because Eiscuhower isn't running. And that winds up the poll's comic output, except that I forgot to say that Calvin Coolidge also got a vote, and just in case even this master stroke of wit leaves you glum, it at least should remind you that when Dorothy Parker heard that Coolidge had died, she asked "How can they tell...
...first time this year the Crimson short-passing game bogged down for a complete game--largely because the players never cut for passes. Navy players consistently outran and passed around them except for a brief interlude in the third period...