Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last February, the CEP, headed by Dean Bundy and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, issued a short but significant report containing far-reaching proposals for amending Honors and non-Honors instruction. Guided by its belief that "many able students are not doing their best under existing conditions, because they are not sufficiently engaged or challenged," the Committee presented to the Faculty what has since been termed the "Honors for all" program...
...next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral, receive paper limousines, palatial mansions, four servants, a de luxe oceangoing liner, and even a jet airliner. By Taoist belief, when the papers are burned, they become real objects for use by the deceased in the next world...
...declared: "No one can say that France has exploited Mauritania. On the contrary, it has been for her a burden." Most of French West Africa's present leaders want France to carry the burden for a long time to come-and France willingly does so in the firm belief that, with its deserts irrigated and its veins of wealth open, the territory will someday justify the effort...
...same element of unpredictability-the suggestion that a mild explosive has been put into the prominently displayed tumblers of Sponsor Lipton's tea-derives from the widespread belief that Paar permits off-color humor. On the whole the charge is unjust. The show's most celebrated blue note was struck while Paar was on vacation and Stand-In Jonathan Winters allowed Anthropologist Ashley Montague to talk about how lack of breast feeding gives American males a bosom fixation. Jack says he would never have permitted it ("After breast feeding, there's just no place...
...expected to protect the small, supposedly uninformed investor, its margin-raising action was not necessary. The small investor has been doing very well. For the past year the professional traders, large investors and stock specialists have been selling more than buying, in the belief that the market would go lower. But the small investor, as shown by the odd-lot (under 100 shares) records, has been buying more than selling, added a total of 13,679,000 shares to his holdings by midyear. In June many small investors began to cash in their profits. Since then, they have been selling...