Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This group is made up of Harvard graduates who played squash or tennis while undergraduates. Each year Barnaby mails out newsletters to all these men, giving information about the teams and players and asking if they would care to contribute to the support of these squads. A man may earmark his gift for either squash or tennis and also specify whether or not the money is for immediate use or to be used to augment a permanent, interest-gathering squash or tennis fund...
Concerning your Dec. 12 article on changing policies toward world Communism: it is rather sad to learn that the Hungarian tragedy was necessary to open the eyes of the world. That the average citizen, with his own troubles and worries to take care of, should have been misled by this flirtation of coexistence, seems understandable to me; not so, however, for people whose only job it is to concern themselves with world affairs and who bear the moral responsibility of leading their respective nations. All that has happened since the early days of Communism has not taught them a thing...
...scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk her treachery in the off season, and to those who do, the professional guides in Chamonix offer only negative encouragement. "Risk your neck if you like," they say in essence, "but don't look to us to get you out if you fail...
Council apathy reached a highpoint when the members refused even to make an inquiry into the Treasurer's incapacity to handle his budget. Somewhere the Domestic Scholarship item for $500 got lost in the shuffle, and nobody really seemed to care...
...take care of more students, said Barzun, the graduate school can go far with such reforms as accelerating courses, eliminating departmental duplication, and relieving professors of routine paper work better handled by a secretary. But though a little expansion, e.g., 10%, might be feasible for such schools as Columbia's, a sizable increase in the student body is no answer to the graduate school's problem...