Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking Harvard as an example, we do not feel that membership in the Communist party per se is either "grave misconduct" or "neglect of duty," even though these 17th century terms of the University statutes are eminently clastic. But recruiting for the CP and similar actions are, because they abuse a teacher's classroom prestige in order to train students for potentially illegal acts...
...voters influenced in an election campaign? To find out, California Publicist Stephen L. Wells, who was Truman's manager in Southern California in 1948, put a 22-man team from the University of Southern California to work interviewing a cross section of voters in California's 17th Congressional District. Last week Wells announced the results. Of the 800 interviewed, 47% of the voters said they were most influenced by news stories, reports of candidates' speeches, and ads in newspapers; 31% gave radio news, speeches and paid political programs the top rating; 22% were most influenced...
...study, conducted by Robert H. Knapp '42 and Joseph J. Greenbaum, psychology professors at Wesleyan University, listed M.I.T. as 17th, Amherst as 28th, and Williams as 29th...
Where a work of art seems to operate at several levels, The Crucible seems made in several segments. It is in part a documentary (based, with some juggling, on 17th century facts), in part a parable with a 20th century application, in part a forthright melodrama. None of these constitutes a high form of art, and Miller, in binding them together, has provided force, but not artistic heightening. The material seems not there for the sake of the play, but the play for the sake of the material...
Famed Wellesley came out 17th in the country, sending 5.8 girls on to greater scholastic endeavors for every thousand graduates...