Word: attainments
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...talent is devalued, and the careerist orientation it engendered weakens. Instead, the image of Harvard as center of liberal education, which draws scientists to the College, becomes the dominant theme in their approach to learning. The outsider's view of liberal education becomes their guide in an effort to attain...
Since the intellectual often feels some guilt at hoping for acceptance through intellectual skill, which he may regard as a corruption of knowledge, any failure to attain this success is likely to have fairly subtle repercussions...
Henrietta Melia Larson, business historian, has been appointed full professor at the Harvard Business School, effective January 1, 1961. Miss Larson is the first woman to attain this rank in the School's history, and the sixth in the history of the University...
...finds her subject perhaps too fascinating for an orderly, steady-pulsed narrative, and now and then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
...remarkably genteel affair. No one really called anyone a liar (Kennedy came closer, but then, Nixon came closer to lying); Kennedy even accepted without comment or quarrel Nixon's assertion that the two candidates differ not on the goals for America, but only on the means by which to attain them. There is, after all, a point at which a difference on means becomes in effect a difference on ends...