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...Economics 98 staff met Thursday and, according to H. Francois Wilkinson, head tutor in Economics next year, agreed that an examination would not make Ec 98 more of a rigid course than a tutorial program. The staff felt that some sort of exam--oral or written--was necessary to help in grading...
...philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than a flip over the shoulder. Karate is now taught in more than 50 schools across the U.S., has an estimated 50,000 practitioners. But nowhere has it caught on more solidly than in Hollywood, where disciples seek tranquillity in its rigid discipline and authority...
Miraculous Rabbis. The people of New Square are Hasidim, adherents of a Jewish mystical movement that sprang from the ghettos of eastern Europe in the 18th century in reaction against the rigid intellectual austerity of Diaspora Judaism. The Hasidim were orthodox in observing the law, but their special emphasis was on love and joy and they gathered around holy men, or zaddikim, whom they believed to have miraculous powers...
...line baking-powder company a technological transfusion. Instead he sees his dream bleed to death in the barracuda waters of corporate executive suites. "Man is a creature that builds institutions," writes Dos Passos. The larger moral of Midcentury is that these institutions in turn grow so big and rigid, corrupt and powerful that they crush and entrap the builders. Whether it is bigness or power spawned by bigness that corrupts, big labor can scarcely deny Dos Passos' damning indictment of the "denial of the working man's most elementary rights, the underworld's encroachment on the world...
Clearly a rigid student-college contract like St. Olaf's would not be feasible here; freshman would justifiably protest paying for part of upperclass-men's education, and the Administration would have difficulty making ends meet without the added income from present students...