Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knowledge has led him into a number of unusual situation's the former director of the Harvard observatory likes to disclaim most of the legends about him. "It's as Holmes wrote," he muses, "half he lies they tell about me aren't true." As Shapley talks, his frequent smile and darting eyes reflect his good nature. Students recall his rapid speech and movements, unslowed by the passing of 69 years. Shapley could stop his work now with full assurance that he would be remembered as one of the leading astronomers of this era. But one assistant claims that...
...Americans like McCarthy? Why is the divorce rate so high? Why have you lost spiritual values? Why did America kill Japanese fishermen by exploding the H-bomb? Why is it impossible for Negroes to go to college? Why do you still support Chiang Kai Shek?" And, the most frequent one of all: "Why did America send arms to Pakistan...
...Armstrong, a nonpartisan man who is usually preoccupied with global concerns, sent a tut-tutting letter to the New York Times, taking the Republicans to task on a local issue: "I refer to an unfulfilled pledge made by the Republican Party in 1952 [for] 'a more efficient and frequent mail delivery service.' . . . My [Manhattan] office receives only one mail delivery a day. There is no large city in any other leading nation of the world-and I speak advisedly-where sucb a lamentable condition exists...
These exemptions result from an understandable assumption: General Education's founders felt that repeated contact with scientific problems and frequent discussions with lab men would demonstrate the significance of science. They were wrong: when the student enters Mallinckrodt, Jefferson, or the Biology Laboratories he leaves the College atmosphere behind. Laboratory men are usually ill-equipped to discuss the broad problems of science in the modern world and many professors find equations more important than mere speculation...
...self-evaluation, not a single course requires them. Faculty members simply present reports on each student at the end of every course, and since almost all instruction is carried out in small groups, Yale feels that faculty members are acquainted with each student intimately enough to evaluate his work. "Frequent examinations," says Dean Lioppard," "are not only undesirable but are unnecessary...