Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not you feel that Homo sapiens is an advance over hippospongia, multiplying application rates suggest that this traditional academic program still has something to offer to somebody. If we are to decide whether that mysterious something is approriate to women's education we must now undertake to define...
...educator what he expects his children to get from college, he will very likely evade the question. Most college graduates seem to feel about college the way Louis Armstrong feels about rhythm: "Why man, if you gotta ask what it is, then you ain't got it." This kind of answer makes most people drop the topic, and classifies the persistent investigator as an ignorant boor. But for those who insist on some more telling argument for higher learning than mere manners, several kinds of answers are available...
...agree that a Harvard institution should comply with state laws but we feel it is the responsibility of an educational institution to ascertain what the law really means. At a time when more and more thinking people all over the world are concerning themselves with the dilemma of over-population, an institution like Widener Library should not withhold from its students any work which deals with a subject of such significance to the survival of mankind as the control of human reproduction. Karl Sax (Harvard M.S. '17, S.Sc. '22), Professor of Botany, President, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
...willing victim as Jacques Barzun in any suspense. Writers nowadays try to create suspense by merely delaying the story with digressions, or by causing the characters to become confused: " 'He had stopped understanding things over an hour ago.' The idea is that the reader, also bewildered, will feel breathlessly eager to recover his wits and will call the anxiety suspense. Mind is explicitly excluded." Moreover, the new detective fiction is badly put together ("The prevailing impression is of writing by a gifted child with a poor education"). And the authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making...
...Ford and Mr. Moseley feel that the study will go a long way towards establishing basic accident causes and making the roads safer for everyone. For every cause determined, they have stated, "there must be a preventive measure to go with it. We might not know what the measure is, but after our research we will know where to go to find...