Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last days of the Republic. Today we are not quite desperate. We are ready to have just one more fling at nationalism and egotism and secularism, one more bid to create paradise on earth by harnessing the atom. After we have blown ourselves to smithereens, then we will admit defeat and begin to look for the good life in some other context...
...smaller departments where there are only a few applicants, Elder feels that more students could be enrolled if they were qualified. In larger departments there is no problem finding exceptional applicants; the difficulty is not overloading the faculty. With the faculty at its present size, the Graduate School could admit about 50 more students, Elder estimates, mostly in the small departments. If new professorships are created under the Program for Harvard College, this number might be raised accordingly...
...Harvard faculty will admit in survey after survey that it is less burdened at Harvard than at any other University. Although the faculty is keenly aware that it has a duty to teach and although many have a desire to teach, the pressure towards scholarship mingled with the feeling that "true scholarship admits no distractions" hinders teaching as opposed to scholarship...
...these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...
College administrators and grad school admissions officers say that they are satisfied with grades as forecasters, though they readily admit that a personal appraisal is superior, when they personally know the candidates for some award. But the idiosyncrasies of far-flung deans limit the wide application of such an approach...