Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that communists are especially desirable on a faculty. My faith, if there is any left to me, is in the undogmatic mind, the mind free to exam data without pro-conclusion and to aim for the conclusion implicit in the data itself. No party-liner--communist, catholic, bible-fundamentalist, shintoist, or what you will-is wholly free to observe this process, and to the extent that he is not free he is undesirable as an instructor in most courses, particularly in those courses where the nature of the material seeks to discover questions rather than mechanical answers...
Those who are looking for a scapegoat will undoubtedly aim their fire in the general direction of the HAA for it presents an inviting target, but as far as this writer is concerned, the HAA cannot be hold responsible. Two weeks ago the Columbia authorities asked ticket manager Lunden how many tickets he wanted. They suggested Harvard would need only 8000, or the usual number given the opposing team at an early season Columbia home game...
Among the 19-year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
...wait for weekends? is the motto. Picturesque couples dot the campus, longing on the lawn in front of the library or strolling to the Cellar for a cup of coffee. It is virtually a university policy that there be at least one open dance on campus each weekend. The aim is to provide a complete life for each student right on campus. This is almost accomplished except that Mr. and Mrs. Stanford insisted that no liquor should ever be allowed at their college...
Mother & Child. The power of the T.U.C. was seeping away. Said a leader of the Railwaymen's Union: "It's like a mother giving blood transfusions to save her child. To save our political offspring, we look like draining ourselves of every independent aim we ever...