Word: following
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...grandson of U.S. ambassadors (to Japan and Italy), Link MacVeagh gave no early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
...ever-widening popular discussion of Federal subsidization of state-controlled education inevitably revolves about the issue regarded as most crucial: the possibility of control accompanying Federal aid. Opponents of such subsidization point to the unavoidable and, they imply, intolerable centralized control of education that would follow. Advocates of such aid, on the other hand, generally take the tack that Federal control is not at all inevitable, and, in fact, is most unlikely because of our governmental nature and history. Left unclarified and largely untouched are the questions: would Federal control of education really be harmful; is there anything good...
With today's competition, squash, swimming, and basketball follow football in post-war resumption of hostilities with Yale College champions. Lowell and Adams are out to reassert Crimson House supremacy, sorely tested in the seven grid contests, in which only one local entry emerged triumphant. STRAUS CUP STANDINGS House Total Points Leverett 577 1/2 Lowell 577 1/2 Eliot 487 1/2 Dunster 485 Kirkland 480 Winthrop 465 Adams 412 1/2 Dudley...
...mankind. . . . Many have defended Britain against her foes. None can defend her against herself. We must face the evils that are coming upon us and that we are powerless to avert. We must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least let us not add-by shameful flight, by a premature, hurried scuttle-at least let us not add to the pangs of sorrow so many of us feel, the taint and sneer of shame...
...Generalissimo quotes Confucius: "The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they must not be expected to understand." From this, Chiang derives a guiding maxim: "To know is difficult, to act is easy." As developed in the supporting text, this maxim envisions a knowledgeable elite (the Kuomintang) which will "know" and rule the unenlightened mass of the people, according to the ancient precepts of "harmony," "benevolence," "justice," and "love...