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Reischauer further explained that the Yen-Ching has been cramped for space at Boylston, and that its present set-up does not include any air-conditioning equipment needed to maintain a humidity control on ancient volumes...
These are undoubtedly the most novel feature of the Cornell language set-up. Each class is led by a native of the country whose language is being taught. Hardly any of these native instructors are professional language teachers. Most of them are graduate students, in any field from Biochemistry to Philosophy, who have come to Cornell on fellowships directly connected with the language program...
Unfortunately, our defense set-up, as conceived in past Congressional economy cuts, cannot deal rapidly with small wars of the Korea type. It can deal with them, but not with sufficient speed. Unless fighting breaks out on the doorstep of one of our overseas bases, locales where the Russians are scarcely liable to start anything, we are only prepared to move in one division with any alacrity...
Priests passing through the lobby of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the eighth annual meeting of Roman Catholic mission-sending societies was occupied with sober reports, many of them dealing with a single mission area: Africa...
...sports, and hence commanded a certain amount of prestige. At that time there was even a special cheering section set up to assist their efforts. But through the years, they gradually delegated their posts to other members of the teams, until finally the system degenerated into the present competition set...