Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman soccer team will meet Princeton here at 10:30 this morning. After Wednesday's 2-1 triumph over Andover, the team's hopes for a victory are high...
Sarah Lawrence students take only three courses which, with rare exception, meet only once a week. In addition there is a weekly half-hour conference with each instructor, similar in may respects to Harvard's individual tutorial system. In this way, the instructor can be expected to learn and fill the requirements of each student, giving in effect a different course to each conferee. As with Harvard tutorial, examinations are rare and most faculty members conscientiously avoid them. Term papers, traditionally referred to as "contracts," are expected of each student...
...fund-raising capacity. Financially, he concedes, it is "a great handicap to have female alumnae," for it is their husbands that usually control the purse-strings. Active contributing by parents of undergraduates, however, adds to the success of an annual fund which generally nets about $100,000, sufficient to meet the college's basic needs...
Thus it was possible for a Russian to meet several students or local residents just from living nearby or eating with them. As the Experiment in International Living, the sponsoring organization, hoped the Russians expressed satisfaction with this arrangement at the end of the stay...
During the next two weeks, faculty members meet with each student for individual discussions on the papers. For the remainder of the term, students read and defend their papers at weekly formal sessions...