Word: withdrawnness
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Consider the fact that each undergraduate pays $125 for every course he takes. In return for this he gets 30 lectures, a reading list, a library from which the professor has usually withdrawn the course texts, and a grader to read the examination he does not want to write. If more professors paused to consider the number of students they inspire daily, multiply that number by $3.00, and ask themselves whether their lecture was worth so much money, the course might come closer to its assessed value...
...Senile patients (up to age 92) who had been moody and withdrawn or waspish and argumentative became happier and easier to get along with on iproniazid...
...Harvard Society for Minority Rights has withdrawn sponsorship of David Wang's proposed visit here, but the Harvard Liberal Union last night was still seeking an opponent to debate the Chinese-American segregationist...
This defensive strategy proved wise, for while Harvard's line could not press any sustained attack without the support of their withdrawn halfbacks, Princeton drives were broken up by five or six men where normally three or four would have played...
...fourth Prime Minister, Bandaranaike still commands a huge popularity, but he seems to be tugged steadily leftward. A stream of "diplomats" from behind the Iron Curtain have been pouring into Ceylon to offer trade, aid and advice. Little by little Western capital and know-how is being withdrawn, frightened away by increasing talk of nationalization. Unemployment increases steadily (the Trincomalee turnover itself threw 10,000 dock workers out of work...