Word: directed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child of Liberty. Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., had hoped that his son would get comfortably to Parliament and stand for Reform. Instead, Percy took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth...
...employment for students along lines for which they have prepared." As a middle-man between employer and hopeful diploma-waver, the possibilities of such a center are tremendous. Other suggestions, such as the one which would "encourage the raising of the level of housing for all students and especially direct attention to the needs of married students," show the nature of the conference's interests to tally with those of most students...
...great revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Like the ascent to his hilltop tomb, which China's leaders make reverently each year, China's climb had been long and hard. Dr. Sun had foreseen a period of national "tutelage" under the Kuomintang (National People's Party) until direct power was returned to the people through constitutional rule. On Christmas Day, in the third reading of China's new Constitution, that democratic return was inaugurated...
...dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average American, brought up in perhaps the closest knit individualistic environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect, the Army was trying to break a bad American habit by one hour of orientation a week...
Five of last Commencement's thirteen award recipients were honored because of their military service service not necessarily in excess of duty. One degree to the Chief of Staff, symbolizing the whole staff might have sufficed. Another five were honored for their direct connections with the University. Deserving as they undoubtedly were, their merits were largely intramural and might have been recognized in a less ostentatious manner. Of the remaining three, the more recent works of one, at least, could hardly earn him a greater reputation than that of a Reader's Digest hack writer, leading the observer of such...