Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Administrators are confronted with another dilemma: the techniques of advertising, selling. University Hall and most of the men connected with the admissions program have settled upon "low-pressure" salesmanship as the most effective and least obnoxious method of dispelling popular myths about the College, and for counterbalancing poor athletic publicity. Some of the more effective publicity channels have been the March of Time film, which is now being shown commercially, and the University News Office, directed by William M. Pinkerton, which now distributes over 3.900 pieces of mail annually on the activities of students to Harvard Clubs, newspapers, and scholars...
...educational dilemma of the decade was not brought into the open by Conant until 1937, but he must have been thinking about it in late 1935. In that year the Crimson recounted another anecdote about the president in the search of a personal secretary. Conant was interviewing candidates in his Massachusetts Hall Officer. An applicant walked in and was immediately confronted with the question. "Can you throw a man downstairs?" After thinking for a moment, the man admitted that, if pressed, he probably could. "Fine," replied Mr. Conant. "Can you make him like...
Dining Hall Dilemma...
Father Kernan summed up his personal dilemma: "Authority means law which is enforceable. There is an absolute lack of authority in the Episcopal Church-at least so far as the priesthood is concerned. Our Lord did not found the church on the laity. He founded it on the priesthood. Yet the rector of an Episcopal church has to do what the people want...
...number of clases: lack of witnesses is the shortest route to a conviction. While it is quite proper to withhold temporarily any judgment on those under arrest, Doan Bender should at least give the students who wish to testify, but don't dare, some rehef from their dilemma...