Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Walter J. Bate, Chairman of the Department, admitted that he receives complaints about omitted courses every year, but claimed that the level of protest was not significantly higher this fall. He pointed out that English instructors generally double up, teaching different courses in alternate years. Tutorial for credit knocks off two courses from the number that Honors candidates must take, Bate argued, and there is "not much duplication" among middle-group courses presently offered...
Candidates for Massachusetts state office have shown a disturbing ineptitude in this fall's campaign. Only Thomas J. O'Connor, Democratic candidate for Senator, has given the Commonwealth's voters any hope for improvement...
...Last fall, a weak Dartmouth squad succumbed here only after Marsh McCall clicked on one of the few halfback goals Munro can remember. It may take a similar intervention by whoever watches over soccer teams for the varsity to win today. You can't ever tell about Dartmouth games...
...academic system is the arena of conflict. One descriptive explanation divides the class into 'linear' and 'diffuse' students. Linears study everything on the reading list and attend all the lectures, or try to. The diffuse dabble, without much plan, through the course material, often achieving very little. As the Fall progresses, linears divide into a group which works ever more intensively and one which begins to learn the ropes and read selectively. The diffuse split into a segment which appears to be learning the ropes--actually begins to work fairly intensively along lines of personal interest--and one which achieves...
This afternoon at 3 p.m. in New Haven, however, first place and the accompanying Seward Bowl will be the varsity's goal. Defending team champion Yale is a strong favorite, and Princeton still has last fall's individual winner, Mike Kingston. Clearly, there will be obstacles in the way of a Crimson triumph...