Word: curing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge by the apathy of students at Harvard to the whole issue of NSA membership last year, there is little such feeling among students here. Membership will not be a cure-all for that apathy, deplorable as it may be. There is no assurance that the pontifications of Harvard delegates to the NSA conferences truly represent the opinion of the student body; they must speak for themselves since apathy prevents expression of most views on the value of the Association. When the disadvantage of personal representation is weighed against the supposed advantage of membership in a non-representative group...
...corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope. And as the evenings pass, one Eye blurs inevitably into another, a TV trouble that even an honest repairman cannot cure...
...others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death rate) of a disease for which medical science has no cure, or even an effective method of control...
Occasionally (although not always at 10 o'clock) everybody thinks about society. For those whose time is now, there is Social Relations 180, Social Pathology and Social Control (Emerson H). Here, T.M. Mills considers delinquency, suicide and the like--their cause and their cure. And to the student whose ultimate concern is differently oriented, Professor Fleming presents History 167, the History of Science in America (Harvard 2). The course begins tamely, with Seventeenth Century developments, and mushrooms into the present...
Such proceedings naturally grated against Quincy's rigid ethics. He felt that the only cure would be suitable discipline for the offending undergraduates--but his clamping down produced even greater disorder. Quincy became a martinet, the "Tiberius" of the College. "His policy toward the students, an alternate cuffing and caressing, ended in making him the most unpopular President in Harvard history since Hoar," wrote historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Quincy knew what was right--the Puritan code of upright moral behavior--and attempted to impose this upon the naturally unwilling student body...