Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reiterated the age-old cry, "Since most bettors lose, why do they keep at it?" Is it really necessary to bring in such abnormalities as masochism to explain that? The struggle to win, with its failures and successes, its climaxes and debacles, its endless variety of patterns, provides one of the most fascinating and exciting forms of amusement known...
...notable week of the Atomic Age, when the No. 1 Communist state has seemingly cleared the way for atomic supervision, you might find the No. 2 Communist state's opinion on the atomic bomb also noteworthy. No. 2, of course, is Communist China, which, in the words of Anna Louise Strong, has "an area almost equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River." As Anna Louise left Yenan this week, after a sympathetic stint of several months, she had "the privilege of a final talk with Mao Tse-tung...
Since its inception less than a month age, the AVC's used book clearinghouse has made possible the sale of more than 100 texts to students and has been an invaluable aid in informing veterans of their reimbursement rights under the G.L Bill, Stanley H. Lofchie '50, member of the AVC's Student Affairs Committee and manager of the book directory, announced yesterday...
...sense to a requirement of a knowledge of the large out lines of World History is plain too if only on the level that it can help stave off unnecessary war hysteria. In this connection, a recent study-also made at Princeton-found that "30 million Americans of voting age had no idea at all of Russia's form of government." Despite the special, and to a large degree just, claims of philosophy, economics and the sciences to equal consideration, the conclusions of the educators at Princeton, and of simple ratiocination on the world scene, indicate that a knowledge...
President Conant, addressing the Society of Harvard Dames at Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon on "The University Tradition in a Changing World," acknowledged the price we pay for our American educational system "is our failure to locate talent at an early age and prepare it adequately during the school years...