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...campaign does not attain its goal by Nov. 6, it will probably move to the campuses of neighboring schools, beginning with Brandeis...
...have been reminded several times that there are organizations on our campus which have "catch" phrases to legalize them and yet which can attain pure exclusiveness. The members of our Association refuse entirely to recognize such fine distinctions. A group is either discriminatory (on certain reprehensible grounds) or it is not. Such discrimination concealed under a ruse is still discrimination. It is even more than that, for is also hypocritical and criminal...
...Help! Help!" Not the "healthy-minded," but the "sick souls" of the world are the founders of religion; those who have a "pathological melancholy" and turn in their despair to a higher power for help-to God or to nature or to an "ideal essence." Once converted, they "attain an altogether new level of spiritual vitality, a relatively heroic level in which impossible things have become possible and new energies and endurances are shown...
...world's women were in chains before Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. As the first woman cosmonaut looped the earth, Tass exulted: "A brilliant star has flared up in the cosmic firmament. It outshines all the film stars in the world. Never and in no country did women ever attain such height." In every Russian village, women celebrated, and congratulations were fired aloft from such Soviet heroines as Lyubi Li, described in the press as "the renowned corn planter and hero of Socialist labor...
...there may also be another reason for the drift toward the departmental. In order to attain "an insight into the fundamental principles of the subject and the nature of the scientific enterprise," i.e., what the Redbook calls the "structure" of a science or of science, the student needs a thorough, and more likely, a profound, grasp of the components of the subject, of the bricks of the structure. The student has to know things before he can appreciate what they mean in a broader view...