Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupil too must become in some sense a split person if he holds some truths, explicitly or implicity, as sacrosanct. He must adopt the methods of Descartes, who wished to examine all truths, yet simultaneously set aside certain ethical and religious maxims for everyday life. The University demands a perpetual examination, a faith in non-faith, a paradoxical commitment to non-commitment which produces an academic dualism that reflects well the conflicts of the twentieth century
...feels that it is time to "raise the question as to whether the original purpose so many sincere people had in fostering the cause of unions has somehow gotten out of hand. The glacierlike forces of a powerful labor movement, including unions representing workers in hundreds of competitive groups, adopt objectives that largely contradict the competitive principle itself." They also imperil profits, the chief means to improve production. "All consumers benefit from improved tools of production, which profits must pay for, and competition is what provides the environment in which profits are created." Yet today, says Blough, wages and costs...
...second possibility, and a more feasible one, he feels, would be for the Radcliffe dormitories to adopt on their own some of the intellectual activities that the Houses offer. He would like to see each dorm build up a staff of non-resident tutor affiliates, not necessarily all from one House, and he thinks the dorms could benefit from such Harvard institutions as concentration tables and dorm review sessions for general exams...
...Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of emotion, withdrew his demand that the Germans sit with the Big Four. The three Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly. "I will initial it." And so, as the Communist press proclaimed "de facto recognition of East Germany," the conference began...
...question of the commuting student has been the subject of more than twenty-five years of discussion at Harvard, and as recently as a few years ago, there were still those who felt the special "problem" of the commuter could best be resolved simply by allowing the Houses to adopt all non-residents...