Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they almost all agree that a women's college should be essentially similar to a men's college, not only in its choice of intellectual tools, but in the impersonal and academic way it wields them. The crisis in women's education cannot be understood without a long hard look at the tradition of male education out of which these colleges have sprouted...
...what this young Brahmin learned on his way to the Orient, and what he now learns at Harvard. In both cases we can discard the handful of useful facts and fancies acquired, since most college undergraduates, like most sailors, could absorb all these in a few weeks of hard work. We need a hypothesis more probable than that all America has suddenly realized, in the last fifty years, the ultimate importance of Veritas. If we are to have the remotest chance of making sense of higher learning, we must recognize that a university, like a supermarket, does...
Army will be the varsity's next opponent, and the Cadets are capable of giving the Crimson a rough time, manager Bob Buellner commented. Army plays a fast, alert game, hitting every shot hard and moving rapidly around the court...
Masterpieces of literature are hard to come by and even harder to recognize. This is particularly true when they are written in verse, and when they presumably lose their pristine shine in the process of translation. It has taken 20 years for The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel to reach English in hexameter from its original modern Greek. The poem has not been translated into any other language and so is virtually unknown outside its native Greece. But in it, chances are, U.S. readers have a masterpiece at hand, in a fine translation...
Death can be small and cold. It can be a hard black pistol. Or it can be huge and hot; it can be half a ton of giant lumbering animal. Manolete knew death as the animal. A rush of black hide and ripping white horn blurring past an inch from the ankle. A bullfighter is significant because in his important moments he fights and defeats the animal; the animal means death, and in the final important moment the animal must kill...