Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take as many risks as perhaps we ought to," King adds, "but a $2000 a year scholarship is a pretty high investment. There is a danger to us that we will lose our investment if a boy doesn't do well at Harvard, and there is a danger for him if he finds he can't compete...
...same time as the lower-in-come boy lags behind in the race, the alumni son looms stronger and stronger. Chances are he doesn't need a very large scholarship, if any at all, and he has probably been very well prepared. A study of Ivy League alumni sons made recently points out that 80 to 90 percent of this group goes to prep school. In recent years, the policy has been to give the Harvard son "the benefit of the doubt" in border-line cases. But as this group grows in numbers, decisions will become more difficult...
Folksinging, he feels, "encompasses everything that life is about. If something is worth talking about, it is worth singing about. That doesn't mean singing takes the place of thinking. It is irresponsible to sing without thinking, just as it would be irresponsible to make love without thinking. I also think it is wrong to have thoughts and not be able to express emotion...
...objective point of view is that it can never do any harm to speak your mind, whether you are right or wrong. It's a little like voting: some people say you can't change the political scene by adding your vote to 100 million. By the same token, doesn't it do some good to sing one song and convince a few people...
...This comic doesn't try to teach anything," says Creator Abeson, now making plans to introduce Willie Woo on television. "I hadn't thought of it as a reading aid-but we hear about teachers using Willie Woo in their classes." This is a destiny unlikely to overtake any of Willie's more established competitors...