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...played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding as to a layman. Crux of the matter: drugs influence mental function mainly through their effects on two parts of the brain: 1) the primitive midbrain's reticular (little network) formation, and 2) the connections between the thalamus (inner chamber) and the outer cortex (bark), the most sophisticated and evolutional-ly the newest part...
...crux of the matter is whether the residential College is willing to sacrifice a little convenience to make the commuter's education for more valuable. Commuting has become a convenient way to add flexibility to the enrollment, but it should also, as Master Leighton points out, be a real educational opportunity. If the College hopes to attract more able commuters, it must make them something more than visitors to classes, and it must take them out of their separated facility and bring them into the College...
...crux of the dilemma rested on the finely-felted shoulder of Timeditor Luce. Globally viewing with alarm, he messaged his trimly serene wife she must resign lest Timempire acquire politically biased repute. Clearly, she agreed that personal ambition, plus loss of her finely-honed talents, must yield to the greater, world-wide, propagation of truth, untainted...
...minutes is a five-to-ten-minute affair for Bill. He never had a formal biology course, and quite a bit of the general aptitude tests are based on biology. He said, 'Oh, I got a book and read it.' He can see right to the crux of a matter. He'll be a great research...
...formation of a CEP sub-committee to study admissions policy reflects the need of both faculty and Administration to decide what sort of student the college should try to educate. The crux of the problem of admissions criteria seems to consist of a choice between the proven scholar and the intelligent "all around" man. There is, of course, room for both, but serious disagreement exists as to the desirable mixture of these types in future classes. The exponents of one position, hold, in general, that Harvard is a place for scholarship, and admissions consideration should thus consider academic achievement...