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Most noticeable are the middle group courses in which freshman, upperclassmen and, students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences attend the same lectures and take the same exams. The effect of this mingling of more mature students with their greener brethren has been to raise the level of the undergraduate's work and give him a more mature outlook on both his studies and life in general...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Great Debate: Small College vs. University | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

...Greener Pastures. In Dallas, "looking for excitement," Manager Charles Gower left his movie theater, joined a friend on the police force and sped to the scene of a reported disturbance, returned to find that two armed men had held up his cashier, escaped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...imagining prospects we have not yet been forced to live through, the disadvantages are less vividly felt, and we fix our attention on the more pleasing side. This may possibly apply to any undergraduate feeling that agrees with your editorial. If the other pasture, from a distance, looks greener, could there not be some trust that many members of the Faculty have seen that other pasture closely, and remember very well what it contains besides grass? Far from being cavalier toward the needs of the student the present experiment is an honest and conscientious attempt to satisfy those needs more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORIAL DEFENDED | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

...when the prospect of admitting a smaller number of seasoned Fellows is weighed against taking in larger numbers of greener ones, the benefits are not great enough to recommend this juggling as anything but a last resort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Older Fellows | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...might expect, we view with alarm. And though we detect hollow cries of No More Politics from benumbed Democrats and cheery pronouncements on the finality of the people's choice from the political fence's now greener side, we maintain our gloomy presentments unabashed. It is not simply that our candidate lost, for that is hardly worth the effort of pressing out the sour grapes, but it is the springs of Eisenhower's strength, the very springs that gushed for Democrats in years past, that worry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whose Victory? | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

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