Word: existing
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...Bingham's uncompromising stand in favor of amateurism also stemmed from this belief that college athletics exist to fill an educational function. It athletics exist to educate the participating student, he felt, then colleges should let the students play, instead of fielding a professional team whose sole function was to make money...
When the Committee passed its new rules, it went against a great deal of what was good in the University's tradition--a tradition that has produced truly educated men. Education is not possible where freedom does not exist. When the Faculty Committee realizes this, it will withdraw its new rules and accept the Council's recommendations. It will let the College seek experience and knowledge the only way they can be sought: without censorship, without pressure, and without interference. That has been and should be the first lesson of a Harvard education...
This is something the Defense Department and local draft boards might well take into account when they consider the cases of draft-targets who want a temporary exist from the U.S. for educational purposes. The North Atlantic Alliance is going to need more than armies to keep it strong, and projects like the Salzburg Seminar can have a powerful adhesive effect...
...provocation for war? "Senator Taft's evident belief . . . is equivalent to saying that the weak must not strengthen themselves relative to the strong lest the strong should take alarm. But this condemns the weak to continue in a state of inferiority to the strong and means that they exist only on the sufferance of the powerful...
Darkness at Noon has managed to appeal to the mind in the theater, and not simply to inflame the emotions; to ask whether absolutist ideas can exist without absolutist methods, whether life which systematically ignores the human factor can preserve a human form. As a play, Darkness at Noon manages, by means of flashbacks and a divided stage, to convey Rubashov's relations with various party members and inquisitors. What is chiefly lost in the theater is Rubashov's relations with himself. The story also slumps here & there, and the love elementthough politically pertinentoften...