Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aim High...
...What is required," said the President, "is a inner capacity to rise above self-seeking, to aim high and to persist in the face of discouragement--to keep one's heart set on truth and love. Harvard seeks to prepare men for this kind of life...
...first learned that he was going to Seattle, Schulman had a plan. Says he: " I was going to get to know this area by taking a leisurely trip, soaking up the geography and meeting some of the people who are shaping the region's course. I still aim to make such a trip. The last leisurely trip I had was the train ride that brought us from Chicago...
...still pleased with what he had seen. "A college is essentially a place where questions are asked . . . Haverford asks the questions. It is difficult to make a statement on this campus without having it challenged . . ." He urged an end to specialized training for graduate study or the professions: "The aim of liberal education is to produce a human being, a free man. To such an aim the wonderful displays put on by Haverford men in graduate schools . . . are largely irrelevant...
...recent imaginary history is tediously rewritten. Badgered by O'Brien, his job lost. Whitehead takes off for a Connecticut farm where he bravely exults to diary: "Farming and writing-that will be a life!" Cutting O'Brien down to size may be a worthy aim, but there must be a less tedious way of doirfg it. If there were a Fifth Amendment for literature. Author Shirer should have invoked it. By insisting on being heard, he has clearly incriminated himself as a dreary novelist...