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...Institute is trying the new system because some past honorary associates have complained that their meetings with undergraduates, selected at random by their senior tutors, have been unexciting and unproductive...
...Random House Dictionary of the English Language...
...hard and soft, is part of the formula that has kept Bazaar successful since its founding in 1867. This year the magazine celebrates its 100th birthday with a book to be published by Random House and, come fall, a 90-minute TV spectacular, produced by Leland Hayward, on a century of Bazaar women. At 100, Bazaar is second in circulation (424,800) to its fashion-world co-Bible, Vogue (442,000). But Bazaar has fashioned its own niche by aiming at stylish women in Des Moines and Omaha as well as New York and San Francisco. In the pages...
...student body. Finley's eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House High School Harry type...
Certainly it is more informative to quote him: passages plucked nearly at random demonstrate his quite unique blend of energetic wit and despair, the despair of a young man whose visions of darkness are constantly lit up by lightning-like storms of adrenalin...