Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chiang argues that the Nationalist air force can do the job alone. He also insists that the decision must come soon. No patriotic Chinese can accept the idea, he says, that the troops and civilians on Quemoy must, for some abstract moral reason, take artillery pounding until they starve to death...
...that was what she wanted to be from age twelve, when she saw a fellow worshiper convulsed by an epileptic seizure in a Newton, Mass, church. But that was in 1896, when women doctors were still frowned upon. Sara's carriage-builder father told her to forget the idea. After breezing through Radcliffe in three years, she pursued her second love, philology, took a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. There, too, she met and married Lawyer Sebastian Jordan, had her only child, Mary Stuart Jordan...
Parietal hours will be extended "only during the Yale weekend" this term. The House Masters granted approval to the idea originally suggested by the Student Council last spring...
...purpose of Phillips Brooks House is simple: to Do Good. This mission may seem somewhat naive but there are still students who--old-fashioned enough to believe in the idea of helping others--give to the organization the largest enrollment of any University extra-curricular activity...
Where he does generalize about Harvard, Boroff has a tendency to be pleasingly vapid. For instance, "students and faculty are united on one article of faith: the greatness of the Harvard idea." Not too many people would quarrel with that, but then what is "the Harvard idea?" Commenting on a certain lack of intellectual daring, Boroff says: "The trend is toward synthesis, possibly encouraged by the electric and integrative character of the General Education courses." To this reader, it would seem rather that Harvard tends to be overly analytic, despite Gen-Ed packages, but why, anyway, should synthesis mitigate zeal...