Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reorganizing the advisor system into five dorm groups with a senior tutor in charge of each will not radically alter the freshman year. It is hard to understand what virtues are to be found in delay, not only because procrastination saps the enthusiasm that an idea can inspire, but because there really doesn't seem to be much to learn...
...Although Harvard has no overt interests, no designs on the strip of land that Sullivan has chosen for his brainchild, it does and should have a strong, civic interest. What problems the building will or will not pose is irrelevant here. It is significant only that the project will alter the face of the Square considerably, and that Sullivan's suggestion came first...
...there come moments in every life when great consequences hang in shaky balance, to be tipped by a tiny mischance, a trivial decision. A man misses a train by half a minute, wanders into a bookstore while waiting for the next train, and picks up a book that might alter his life forever. Another, taking a walk in the country, comes to a fork in the lane, hesitates, chooses the left turn rather than the right, and meets the girl he will marry. Afterward, men often look back upon such events and call them inevitable...
...wage gains historically have contributed to inflation. And in the postwar period, "wages in general continue to go up faster," warns Bowen, "than output per man-hour" even when unemployment is high. The result is continued inflation, and "no amount of 'faith' in the American economy can alter this harsh fact...
...Begin . . ." But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from their present course-both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final...