Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly that it has often been difficult to sort out basic issues from special cases. Definition, examination, and often agonizing reappraisal, however, have slowly had their effect. Along with the much-discussed scars of conformity and fear, introspection caused by the investigations has probably also brought a generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee. Faculty people have learned that silence or impudence before investigators is usually more inimical to their own cause than forthright, honest testimony...
...direct-mail approach to subscribers, old and new, has always had excellent results. Sometimes they are even amazing. The return, stamped envelopes have brought back keys, rent money, slices of cheese and once, an upper plate of false teeth so dull they could not bite their way out of a paper...
...Sham Chun River, which divides Communist and British territory at the edge of Hong Kong, was running bank full. One afternoon, four U.S. Air Force officers sloshed through the muddy approach on the Communist side of the Sham Chun, splashed across the puddles on the bridge at Lo Wu and stepped into freedom. Among the first to greet them was Father Ambrosio Poletti, a Roman Catholic missionary based in Hong Kong, who offered them a pack of Lucky Strikes. Said Lieut. Colonel Edwin Heller, 36, of Wynnewood, Pa., as he lit up: "Gosh! Remember them...
...lively with plans for the first Reading Period, in accordance with a system announced the year before. Each Department revealed its own plans: some eliminated all lectures entirely during the fortnight before exams and others retained only those in the elementary courses. The whole thing was so new in approach to studies that there was no way of telling whether Widener would be jammed beyond all capacity, whether anybody would be able to obtain the books desired, or even whether anybody would bother to return after Christmas vacation...
...outstanding visiting professors who have been here this year. The Rev George A. Buttirck's first term in Memorial Church for example, went entirely un-noticed. These are only a few suggestions. But more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the University, and less of the Pollyanna approach that in every day in every way Harvard is growing bigger and better, would have made for more interesting reading...