Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appalled by the superficial character of "A Thursday in November." Can't our reasons for thanks be chosen on a higher spiritual level before being put into the form of a Litany? And why must democracy and freedom always be equated with the ends of civilization and man? This can only be so in a pagan society. For the Christian religion, upon which Western civilization is, after all, based, these concepts must forever be means and not ends...
...university community that this questionnaire, as recently amplified by the Navy ruling, works the greatest damage. An NROTC student who has to testify to his past purity is subjected to a form of political intimidation. If he wishes to avoid trouble, he will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible...
...only at the expense of other departments, since the enrollment of the College has been fixed by administrative decree. But it will not increase its allotment of permanent appointments at the expense of other departments. It will have to wait for new money, in the form of either endowed chairs or gifts to the University for unrestricted purposes...
...organizing students, who want to form a skating club, believe they can get an outside donor to give the $1,800 to $2,000 necessary for the construction of an outside rink on Soldiers Field. Then, if they can get enough interested skaters, the organizers believe they will be able to raise the necessary $600 per year to pay to the Athletic Association for maintainance of the rink...
...United States, of course, is that their radio stations are subject to direct government control. This means program planners can give listeners what they ought to have rather than what they want, without fear of detrimental consequences. In this country, few sponsors have the courage to sponsor a direct form of education because they know their chances of holding listeners are better if they give away ice-boxes or tell how a woman can enjoy life beyond...