Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Teaching Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, I wish to commend you for your Aug. 31 article showing the outstanding achievements of President Mather in developing the university into a first-rate educational institution. It is unfortunate that Senator Powers and his colleagues have seen fit to place personal ambitions ahead of the progress of the university and the commonwealth...
...possibility of God, for this too imposes restrictions upon their habits of thought. With the possibility that a God may exist always within reach of his clutching hand, the agnostic may proceed to fashion his own religious philosophy and take or reject the convenient fruit when he ultimately sees fit...
...people think that Judaism becomes more respectable when it wears the cloak of popular philosophies," Rabbi Gold said. "It is quite likely that students prefer to discuss Jewish questions on grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical to the study of religion. The values used to comprehend Judaism are thus foreign...
Quincy's "heart's desire," his son recorded, "was to make the College a nursery of high-minded, high-principled, well-taught, well-conducted, well-bred gentlemen, fit to take their share, gracefully and honorably, in public and private life." In his attempt to reach this goal, Harvard's fifteenth President failed miserably. His policies incurred the wrath of the undergraduates and culminated in the great riot of 1834 and the subsequent dismissal of the entire sophomore class...
...Parmelee Cove, the elegant estate still ruled by Reese's dotty grandmother, everyone knows the forms by heart. Schools, colleges, clothes, jobs and "marriage partners" all fit an ingrained pattern, and most of the Parmelee grandchildren, clustered with their families around the central money pile, like the arrangement well enough. Reese's wife Esther, who grew up knowing the smell but not the taste of money, venerates the forms as if they were sacraments. To be well bred is to be ill bedded, she thinks, and so she is frigid. But when Reese undertakes a Long Island fling...