Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even now, the undergraduate who plans his program carefully can find the General Education courses immensely helpful. They can give the history concentrator something more worthwhile than the fact-filled chemistry course, and the G.E. department has a staff of brilliant teachers. The infant program has so far been successful, and should be more so if too much is not demanded of it too soon. General Education itself is still a dark question--the Committee has not yet opened full throttle, and even when it does, obtaining a well-rounded knowledge will still depend largely on the individual...
Died. General Jacques Leclerc (Vicomte Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque) 45, wartime field commander hero of the Fighting French, postwar Inspector-General of the French Army; in a plane crash; near Colomb-Bechar, on the Algeria-Morocco border. Brilliant, dashing, and a master tankman, Leclerc escaped from France in 1940, assumed the nom de guerre to avoid reprisals on his family...
...extreme fineness of intellect, unfoldings of a lacework of perceptions, of associations, of interpretations, which made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple unimproved beech-mast of the world. No matter how he stooped and wavered, out of his head proceeded mental patterns intricate and brilliant as the etchings of frost on a winter pane. Surely the others, the Nazi-Fascists, were not fully human. But neither...
Plenty of other doors flew open. Rebecca, despite a somewhat unconstructed chin, had a beauty of face which was heightened by a beauty of the mind when her dark brown eyes grew intense with the animation of ideas. Talk poured from her in a brilliant jet, and had upon her listeners the effect of an electric impulse. She has been talking ever since, for her writing is, in fact, a burst of brilliant conversation...
...hopes to offer. If this man were a candidate for honors, he would be inclined to place a heavy value on concentration under the existing system. Charged with extensive preparation for General Examinations, the undergraduate often feels bound to take the maximum number of courses in his field. A brilliant man can thus unconsciously sacrifice the principles of the curriculum to the cause of Cum Laude...