Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everett M. Dirkson (R-Ill.), and Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) '14, told Bicks they would give the bill serious attention but would not commit themselves one way or the other. Saltonstall is chairman of the sub-committee which will handle...
...take the responsibility.'' Dr. Hoff agreed to treat the youngster and his problems, but he had charge of only one of many cases that have recently alarmed Vienna's teachers, public and press. In four months, 16 children aged 9 to 16 have tried to commit suicide in Vienna, and one of them, a boy of 13 who jumped from a third-story window, succeeded...
...week a letter written by La Caglio in the form of a last will and testament turned the whole trial topsy-turvy. "Who knows what will happen to me?" said the letter, ferreted out by a newsman and subpoenaed by the court. "I have too many Christian scruples to commit suicide, but knowing both Montagna and Piccioni, I am afraid to disappear without leaving a trace of myself. Unfortunately for myself, I have learned that Ugo is the chief of a dope ring responsible for the disappearance of many women. He is the brains of this organization, while Piero Piccioni...
...whose job it it to please everyone, Heamen is quite successful. In line with this policy, he does not commit himself on whether or not Adams House has the best food and other such ticklish questions. As for the quality of the food, Heamen says only, "We try to supply the best food for the money--$14.00 a week...
Transforming Minds. In 1944 Pusey went back to Appleton as president of Lawrence College. By that time he had come to the conclusion that a whole dimension was missing from U.S. education. Like his old Professor Irving Babbitt, he felt that "too many modern teachers commit the error of teaching students to see the evils and shortcomings of society without at the same time pointing out the evils that exist in them [selves]." The purpose of liberal education was not merely to impart knowledge; it was also to "transform personality by transforming minds ... But they [cannot be] transformed ... by materials...