Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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At first glance, the large Victorian house on Sacramento St. looks like a typical Cambridge residence, but something about it seems a bit out of the ordinary.
Living in the co-ops means sharing the responsibilities for food-shopping, cooking and cleaning. Students perform about four to six hours of household chores each week in order to accumulate the week's required number of brownie points.
"The essential difference is that when you go home to a room in a house, you're going home to a dorm room...here, you come home to a big family...a pile of dishes you have to do--it's a little more to come home too," says Charles...
Students say the extra time they invest in co-op chores may sound like a burden, but "when you consider the time you spend goofing off, it's really not a terrible amount of time," says Rachel M. Safman '91 of Jordan.
This subject may be summed up by the statement that thirty years have practically seen the establishment of definite systems of physical training and a great improvement in the general physical welfare of students; that during this period out-door sports have, like the swing of a pendulum, carried the...