Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four hundred and eighteen undergraduates last year were refused entrance to the Houses. These figures alone bear evidence to the present inadequacy of the House System. Out of one thousand applications House Masters were forced to turn away three hundred and thirty-six who were in good standing. No House official, no Dean, no student endorses this arrangement. A waiting list may be desirable, but such a large one only breeds disillusionment and discontent. But the University officials are at a loss to know what...
...press of a bias on issues affecting Catholicism. In particular, the coverage of the Spanish war by such newspapers as the New York Times infuriates Catholic publicists. In America, sharply-edited Jesuit weekly, Rev. 'John A. Toomey, S. J. lately urged that Catholics bring their national organizations to bear on offending journals. Father Toomey pointed out that Jewish issues are never misrepresented for long in the U. S. press, in which Jews are important advertisers...
Harley Stowell, who got off probation at midyears, has been digging out fine 100-free-style times recently and will bear watching as a No. 2 in the 100, the 220, or even the quarter. He's just getting back into form...
...ideas it embodied were excellent, but the wording was deplorable. President Conant seems aware that this is a democracy, but oblivious of the limitations inherent in a democracy. Until that golden Tomorrow, when "basic education is truly universal," the President will have to use words of two syllables or bear the consequences, for publicity, build-up, ballyhoo, and general "talking down" are essential to putting a point across to the general public...
...this speaker also remains mute. In short, these two speakers disappointed their public, and this is a direct reflection on the Bureau for whom they spoke. Surely it is not too much to expect of experts that they give, instead of vague generalizations, some real suggestions. Future speakers should bear in mind that while the public may not want technical dissertations, they do demand logical analysis, coupled with some original information. That is but the true function of research...