Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have just been assured over the long distance phone by Ned Williams, DOWNBEAT's Editor, that he would try to stop press and correct this error. However, against the chance that copies containing the error may reach the stands, I would appreciate a word in the CRIMSON clearing me of having made any such phony claim as to my Harvard scholastic record. Johnny Green...
...Congressional Record for Feb. 19, 1947. Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin told Congress that he had asked General MacArthur whether he (MacArthur) had "cast the lone dissenting vote against the guilty verdict." MacArthur replied: "... Your recollection of my part in [Mitchell's] trial is entirely correct. It was fully known to him, and he never ceased to express his gratitude for my attitude...
When the Halprins moved to Philadelphia last year, Diana enrolled in the Curtis Institute, traded her violin for a quarter-sized one. Her practice sessions are frequent but seldom last more than 20 minutes. Games are invented to keep her interest, e.g., Diana shows her dolls the correct way to play, then plays for them herself. For next season's concert, Diana hopes to be able to handle a half-size violin, perform a movement from a Mozart or Mendelssohn concerto...
...Cogito; ergo sum), the symbol of modern skepticism, who believed that each man must start alone and anew to find the truth. Descartes' assumption that each individual must find truth in his own way is one of the great modern fallacies, Van Dusen argues. On the contrary, the correct assumption is "that youth of 17 to 20 years of age is not competent to decide the essentials of his own education...
Whether or not these views are correct, the main objection to this person's entire line of thought is that, invoking the name of liberalism and free thinking, he is in actuality practicing a dogma more absolute than that found in any religion. Certainly the presence at Harvard of a resident University Chaplain and an elective course in religion cannot be construed as an invasion of Withheld-by-Request's privacy, intellectual or otherwise. Charles B. Flood...