Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unconscious conflict over incestuous urges or stealing from his brother's piggy bank at the age of five. In the world of red bricks, this is like arguing about the number of angels on the point of a pin. Psychiatrists who have worked on the back wards readily admit that they can claim no technical cures-they will have to wait at least five years after a patient's discharge for that. What they do claim is an impressive number of "social recoveries": cases in which a patient for whom there had been little hope has been brought...
Being rulers of the state officially designed "to create a new king of humanity." the soviet rulers must extend censorship to every phase of intellectual life, Karpovich said. "They cannot admit that there are any neutral spheres, or recognize the autonomy of culture," he added...
...almost impossible to acquire tutors, who are discouraged by the prospect of ministering to weak academic groups. The familiar story of the tutor in one House who was overjoyed when he found he had two Group III tutees has more truth behind it than many would like to admit. Some Houses are so off-balance in the direction of the sciences or humanistic that they must import tutors from other Houses to compensate for their deficiencies. Other Houses are noted for their high percentages of prep-Schol graduates, or their athletes...
Commenting at the Chicago panel on statements from Yale and Princeton which asserted their no-expansion policies, Francis H. Horn, president of the Pratt Institute, said: "This is sheer nonsense unless you admit that Yale or Princeton already has a diluted form of education . . . I think they still have a highly selective group...
...clear. Further, ignorance of law is no excuse for its violation. The argument, then, stripped down to its basic point of contention, is: did the student attend the prep schools with the funds raised in Chicago. The Ivy League is close-mouthed about the subject, but one member does admit that "The student received money from the school, and the school received money from the group of men in Chicago. In the judgment of the Eligibility Committee, there was a direct relationship between the two. The decision of the Committee was based upon that opinion...