Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the tendency of every man to see in others his own greatest flaw; about the difficulty of re-creating the image of a man from a variety of half-true impressions. Each narrator, whether friend or lover, sees only part of Swift, and even the whole account seems not enough for a true picture. Johnston ends his play with Swift Brushing away the fools and declaring, "I am that...
Other considerations than ability will have to be taken into account. With greatly increased costs because of building and faculty, scholarship funds may not increase proportionately. They probably will not be available in the same 1:4 ratio that they are at present. John U. Monro '34, director of the Financial Aid Center, asks, "Why should there be anything magical about our present ratio" If there are more qualified students who can pay their own way why shouldn't we admit them...
...memories of Lamont attendants walking back and forth, eyes fixed straight ahead, twirling the counting mechanism in their fingers, are all too vivid to accept resulting numbers as perfectly accurate. Also, the validity of the House attendance figures is questionable. In Adams House, the librarian received orders to take account of the number of men entering the library during an hourly interval, and not to make a count of people actually there. As a result, Adams reports very low figures for around 11 p.m. in the evening, when few were still entering the library...
...addition, the Red Cross has taken students' schedules into account more carefully, and has attempted to arrange appointments that do not conflict with classes...
...controlling principle, and soon even this must crumble, for its irrelevance to the absolute is perceived. If Kafka (from whom Beuhling derives much) is read as an anguished, exhausted, yet still regretful voice, In the Forested Plains speaks from a point beyond the surrender; renders the de facto account of the consciousness fulfilling its ordained self-destruction. And that the hunger principle rather than the love principle characterizes the sensuality which motivates the action is by no means accidental; for it serves to emphasize an egotism whose manifold self-probing must lead to the deceptive freedom of self-annihilation. This...