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...done so in the past because it recognizes that education is worthless unless it involves decision-making as well as routine work. Schedule conflicts, squeeze plays, and inter-group disharmony are just the sort of problems that students can educate themselves by solving. If, whenever these problems afflict groups, the students run to Watson for mothering, the worth of a Harvard education must perforce decline...
Among the richest and strangest of the sea changes are those that afflict the colors. At 15 ft., red turns pink; at 40 ft., it becomes black. Orange disappears at the same depth. Yellow lasts until about 120 ft., where it begins to turn green. Below 25 ft. color loses about half its value. Once, at 150 ft., Cousteau cut his hand. The blood spurted out?green. At 55 ft. the blood turned dark brown, and back at the surface it was red. Cousteau has included more than 100 excellent underwater photos in the book, about 20 of them...
...protecting, and rigorously channeling undergraduates is the policy of small schools planted in distant woods, and the personal distortions it accomplishes have no place at a University. Of what use is it to a man's education that he is shielded from all those petty personal frictions which will afflict him for years to come? What chance do men have of maturing personally if committees here, committees there, committees every-where make all their social decisions? This sort of thing only encourages irresponsibility, not maturity...
...matter what shortages might afflict the U.S. people, they found themselves last week with the world's greatest supply of the gear and sites necessary for celebrating New Year's in the American Way. Football stadia and dozens of marching bands stood ready for the bowl games; so, for the night before, did hundreds of nightclubs and hotels, endless shelves of whisky, thousands of waiters, bartenders, jugglers, tenors and striptease dancers, and a fortune in fizz water, paper horns, tow cars, aspirin and ice bags...
Moving with relaxed urbanity through a round of activity that would faze most captains of industry, busy Preacher Sockman likes to paraphrase Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley: "It is my business to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable...