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...soldier unless he has a sixth sense," he recalled, "and then he would describe that sixth sense . . . For him it seemed to work. It was suddenly to make your decisions on your own guess and throw all of the G-2 people out the window. Now I confess I have a feeling that things are on the upswing. But I can take every single favorable point and balance it by something that doesn't look too favorable . . . But I do say, I still have my feelings...
...always preach what he practices, for such outstanding scholarship-which brought him to Harvard in 1931-is not what he recommends to graduate students. Speaking of theses as "mere Ph.D. union cards," he urges his students to "get the thing over with in a hurry." Yet graduate researchers confess that anyone who tries to study that way under Miller is bound to run into trouble. For easy-talking Miller cannot tolerate haphazard scholarship...
Newspapers angrily recalled other cases of police brutality. One woman, acquitted last month of poisoning her lover's wife, had been held illegally by police for three days while they kicked her, pulled her hair, and insulted her in an effort to get a confession. In 1948 a sanitarium worker was kept standing for 28 hours without food to force her to confess killing a man who later was proved to have died of cerebral hemorrhage...
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11:--If Harvard 1 is not the skull-lined study of a medieval monk, Professor Charles H. Taylor at least creates the appropriate atmosphere when he gives the "Intellectual History of Europe, 500 to 1300." St. Augustine should confess to an appreciative audience in History 121b...
...evidence (The Report on Behavioral Sciences) made available last year concerning the relative healthy condition of the social sciences is reassuring. But at the same time I confess personal regret that reasons for optimism and satisfaction concerning the position of the humanities are not equally convincing...