Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Boeing Airplane Co. President William M. Allen, National Chairman of the United Community Campaigns of America : "It's not something you can put your finger on. Wherever there's a situation which leads a community to focus on one objective and makes it work together to achieve it, you can't help but score a gain in community spirit. If Seattle is now doing its job for libraries and civic centers and other aspects of a dynamic city, it's in a large measure because it has learned to do it for children...
...trip to Peking in January 1955, to negotiate with Chou Enlai for the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers. "Everything the Secretary-General said to Chou could have been said by diplomatic pouch," admits a U.N. bureaucrat. "But the physical fact of the trip served to focus world attention and moral pressure, and the flyers were turned loose...
...football rounded the November corner, conference standings and bowl claims began to come into focus. Yale, still smarting from eight defeats in the last nine games with Princeton, buried the previously unbeaten Tigers 42-20, assured itself at least a tie for the Ivy League championship. Iowa's Hawkeyes hung on to a thin 6-0 lead over Ohio State, edged up on the Big Ten title and copped their tickets to the Rose Bowl. Michigan State dropped out of the Big Ten title scramble by losing to Minnesota, 14-13. Oregon State just managed to squeak past Idaho...
...than present dangers is the future of a House system which will in no way grows larger and more impersonal, and as the benefit from a college-wide center. As Harvard walls of college cohesion crumble into spheres of influence, the House must play an increased role as the focus of student activity. If Houses are to realize their full potential, the presence of college-wide social and organizational ganglions must be kept to a minimum. Otherwise, University associations wil grow into centers of prestige and activity, while Houses wither to sleeping quarters for the active and apartments...
...setting aside a few rooms in each House for organizations, the University could eliminate the dangers of bureaucratic centralization, and, at the same time, tend to make Houses the focus of undergraduate activity. Instead of going from Lowell House to the Activities Center, the student would remain in his own House or travel to one of the neighboring Houses...