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...warns Miss Carlyle. "If you are convinced the family is a detriment to your success, please don't hesitate to keep them in the background. After marriage, you can see your parents during the day- alone." As for friends, "appraise calmly whether your friend or friends aid or hinder you in your objective . . . Examine the true state of affairs with a surgeon's knife. Your relationship [may be] a cancerous growth which should be removed...
Universities and legislatures that deviate from this rule do actual harm to their struggle against Communism: they prevent teachers from pointing out hitches in our way of life, and hinder, rather than help the discovery of solutions to national problems. Moreover, they diminish those very individual liberties that we are right now struggling to save...
...University has established a research center to find the causes of international mistrust, President Harold Dodds announced yesterday. The unit, which will be called the Research Center for the Study of World Institutions, will consider problems such as the antagonism between democratic and non-democratic values, the obstacles which hinder work in the U. N., and the common mistrust of foreign ideas and people...
...Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov tells a fable of Christ's return to earth during the Spanish Inquisition. Unceremoniously thrown into jail, He is told by the Grand Inquisitor that men are not ready for the life of love and that meanwhile His presence can only hinder the business at hand. The saddened Christ takes his departure...
...Charter was signed by Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on May 31, 1650. Final examinations would hinder many Dunster seniors from attending the dinner if it were held on the exact anniversary...