Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants to do and what he is prepared to do forms an important part of the work of any employment office at a college such as Harvard, and with its polls and pamphlets the Office has done this thoroughly and well. At Yale, however, the Placement Bureau lays similar basic foundations, while emphasizing actual placement. In 1941, of the 213 students who went directly into business or industry, the Bureau helped place sixty percent. The Harvard Office makes no claim to anything approaching this record...
...Constitution. Other unthinking critics have expressed fear of this sudden increase in political action, apparently unmindful that such naturally stimulated interest is a sign of health rather than discase in the body politic. The whole question of how much political activity is desirable in an election necessarily involves the basic philosophy of student government: whether the Council is to be a truly representative body elected with a clear understanding of student problems and opinions or merely the private ring of career men and back room caucuses...
...hundred and forty thousand telephone employees have voted to walk out early next month. The Nation's basic industries--steel and coal--will be fortunate indeed if they are not strikebound when the company-union contracts expire on April 30 and March 31 respectively. And last week, as the index of wholesale prices jumped seven points, opening a way through which the cost of living may leap to fantastic new levels, organized labor grew restive. Almost all of the big unions, especially those in the rubber and automobile industries, are expected to ask for higher wages...
...feel very strongly that there is something lacking at Harvard. The quality of instruction is high, but the living and working together that is one of the basic duties of any university is not made possible," and Bender...
Vanity of Vanities. "Instinct" is the heart of Author Wylie's philosophy, and he defines it as famed Psychiatrist Carl Jung did, as the "collective unconscious," i.e., the idea that hidden in all men is a "common instinct" or basic "energy," which "governs living behavior in individuals, species, and in evolution." Individuals and nations that thwart this timeless instinct - either through unnatural laws and institutions or by catering to the day-to-day vanities of the ego -call down upon their heads neuroses, national-madness, and even extinction of their species...