Word: approach
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...alike in their tedium, and no one likes them, unless it is Mother. Each year the editors of these publications rack their brains for something "new." Inevitably, much the same thing issues forth. This year the novelty, according to the editors, is what is called "an editorial approach midway between the reportorial and the historical." "Yearbook writers," they say, "found themselves going beyond the dry facts to set down on paper the atmosphere of Harvard ... the Yearbook has presumed for itself a journalistic role rarely associated with college annual, that of interpreter as well as recorder." If the Yearbook...
...Life scatter-fire-and-look-for-the-oddities approach manifested in the polls has been explained away as a play for the interest of the Newspapers. which are said to be looking for this sort of thing in yearbooks. Yet in 321, this attitude extends beyond the polls. In all of its essayings into undergraduate life there is a failure to ask why. Even in the mediocre best of the lot, an article on religion at Harvard, the Yearbook holds itself to a straight reporting job, never allowing the fact to flower into truth. As a result, its record...
...nice to hope that this will have an effect on Congressional reactions to the budget, but basically this Alice-in-Wonderland approach to government has gone too far. No one with a realistic knowledge of Congress would ever ask that body to cut a budget--it's perfectly happy to carve up any measures but the Rivers and Harbors bill without special invitation. And the disorganization within the Administration about how much the government needed to spend was comical only when it concerned Ike's helicopters. Otherwise it was frightening...
Professor MacLeish's "An Approach to Poetry" is the only one of the three which was given this year. Despite the papers due every Saturday, more students wanted to take Hum 130 than could be accommodated; consequently, enrollment was limited to seniors and high-ranking juniors. Next year will be the only opportunity for most members of the Class of 1958 to take the course...
Brower became vice president in 1940, one of several executive vice presidents in 1946. Along the way, he earned a reputation for the sardonic quip and an analytical approach to problems. Last week, Charlie Brower displayed both qualities. Said he: "Many of the people who wouldn't hire me at first are still here-and they still say they were right...