Word: faired
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...most fundamental such factor is the one that has already been referred to: neglect. There are some 3,000 graduate students as against 4,800 undergraduates; yet it seems fair to say that we devote a far smaller proportion of our thought or facilities to the Graduate School than we do to the College. All members of the Committee are thoroughly committed to the Harvard tradition that the College is the heart of the University, and ought to be. But we do believe that the Graduate School merits, both in numbers and importance, more attention than it has ever received...
...much that I want to be railroaded into the gas chamber, sir, but to deny you the pleasure, sir, of - after convicting me - turning around and telling the world: 'Well, I put that fellow in the gas chamber, but I first gave him a fair trial,' when you, in fact, sir, will not have done...
Troubled Future. For O'Neill, increasingly isolated within his own party, the future is bleak. There is at least a fair chance that he may lose his post as party chief in the next few weeks. If he retains power, he risks more Catholic civil rights demonstrations unless he pushes for reforms, and action on those reforms almost certainly would bring extremist Protestant rioters to the streets. Continuing unrest might well spur British intervention, which in turn would produce a violent response from a goodly number of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 people. Indeed, the Marquess...
...regularly beaten by senior boys. But by the time he left school, he could read Latin and Greek, French and German, and, as he observed with matter-of-fact pride, "I knew enough chemistry to take part in research, enough biology to do unaided research, and I had a fair knowledge of history and contemporary politics." Thus equipped, he went to New College, Oxford, started in mathematics, switched to "Greats" (classics and philosophy), and broke an oar in the college crew. Strong in mind and body, he entered the military in 1914, eventually to be praised by Marshal Haig...
Harvard's basketball team ends its season today against Dartmouth at Hanover. The cagers' record is 7-17, and they stand a fair chance of finishing with their poorest record since...