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...that they will survive just so long as man feels the need of their witness to his accomplishments and grandeur, just so long as he continues to heed that siren song of pomp, pleasure and stimulation. "They will not last if we do not care," said City Lover Leland Hazard, a Pittsburgh businessman, before a Boston conference on community problems. "A city does not endure by the work of hirelings. A city endures when its least and its greatest citizen love it alike and will live and work and die that it may be glorious...
Since radiation is a potential hazard in space flights, Kjellberg indicated that, "The possible role of biological studies with the proton beam is already of interest to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...education; national programs to improve education have perpetually sought to define the aims of education. For this reason, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which was a boon to overworked admissions officers also threatened to create a relatively narrow definition of excellence; it was the attraction of simplification and the hazard of limiting diversity by over-emphasizing test scores that led a former Dean of Admissions to warn against "the tyranny of little numbers...
...Dowding later explained to newsmen, involves stealing up on the beasts after dark and cooing: "I am glad to have you as unseen pets, but you are causing me some difficulty." Then, "after I have said this, they understand the situation and leave of their own accord." The one hazard, conceded Lady Dowding, "is that anyone listening would think I was crazy...
...Natural Doubt." One result of better students is a more intellectual Catholicism, an increase in the "natural doubt" that sometimes hits parochial school graduates in college and even produces some apostates. According to Hesburgh, "practically all" of his students believe in God. But "you run a hazard working with kids," he says. Real belief comes from experience, perhaps from "darkness, not light." With a 19-year-old, "you can't just saw off the top of his head and pour it in. All you can do is give him a basis of order that will prepare him to under...