Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tulare, California, track star is definitely entering Stanford in September, but his headmaster at Kiski, Llyod Clark on Exeter classmate of William J. Bingham '16, thought it would be a good idea for Mathias to see some eastern schools before going west...
...would be a good idea to sit through the even more venerable "The Bride Walks Out"; its completely dated gags and situations go far to point up the timelessness of the Barrie story. It is also interesting as a prematurely exhumed time-capsule of the early '30s, with their long skirts, rectangular automobiles, fifteen-cents-for-the-first-quarter-mile taxicabs, and an unwrinkled and suspiciously flat-chested Barbara Stanwyck making the inevitable Hollywood decision about Career vs. Home...
Accent on Interest. Beloff complained that, except for a few "radicals such as Chancellor Hutchins of the University of Chicago," there is "a certain lack of boldness" on the part of educators. They seem sold on the idea "that every young person has a right to a higher education, irrespective of ability or previous training." And what is the result? A notion, said Beloff, "that the total number of students is more important than the quality of the work done...
...Communism is our most powerful enemy. It is the strongest modern expression of a social idea-we must fight it but treat it with respect. We must study it well, deeply, and in all details so as to combat it, not with arms and force which are means of ephemeral victory, but by showing the masses-to whom we promise happiness in heaven while Marx promises happiness in mortal life-that long before Marx, St. Paul taught social justice, and that we can and must now put our theories into practice...
...learned from the start the importance of the air. On their wedding day in June 1928, while friends gathered on Long Island for the ceremony, Trippe put in a brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking aviation." Even so, he bounds out of bed at 7, can get along on five hours' sleep...