Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser degree Dunster and Lowell, have minimally enforced parietal rules, while Quincy, Eliot, and Leverett and others have quite strictly observed regulations. The uniform rules certainly don't reflect a uniform reality. As long as the rules are not equally enforced, they should be made to fit practice...
...been interrupting worship at West German Protestant churches, which they claim are unconcerned with the real problems of the world. Among other things, the demonstrators have demanded that ministers turn their services into group discussions on such topics as the immorality of capitalism. Since no pastor has yet seen fit to accept this demand, the agitators have occasionally littered the churches with copies of a bitter fiscal parody of the Lord's Prayer...
...days a week. At 1,140 of National Provincial Bank's 1,640 branches, clerks still post ledgers by hand. By merging, both National Provincial and Westminster expect to reduce the heavy but inevitable cost of converting to fully computerized accounting. The two banks should make a good fit. Westminster, headed by Chairman Duncan Stirling and Chief General Manager Ralph Elliott, has concentrated on personal and professional accounts, has its main strength in London and southern England. National Provincial, led by Chairman David Robarts and Chief General Manager William Davidson, has stressed industrial accounts and expansion in the Midlands...
Many who know the prerequisites of domestic and foreign peace mourn today the loss of programs which recognize these needs. Yet many of the same people in a fit of pique, would compound the loss--ignoring the least fettered instrument of peace in America today...
...would give students more academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain this narcissistic attitude by saying...