Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this adviser represents an ideal, he also represents a small minority--a minority that is not likely to increase in size. Freshman advising will remain a casual business as long as Harvard remains a university college, as long as the majority of advisers are more concerned with their own research, their own teaching, and their own academic futures than with the fate of their advisees. It will continue to take the College's raw material--and the split, the schizophrenia, the polar extremes inherent in that raw material--and turn it back on its own unequal resources for the important...
Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...surprisingly large number of American schools rallied to the N.S.A. ideal. They guided the stripling organization through conferences and preparatory meetings. Presenting its own mind, its own officers and its own mind, it today stands on its own feet. Drifting far away from the Continent, N.S.A. intends to affiliate with the Soviet-oriented international unit for its "service" functions only, maintaining clear autonomy from the union's political hijinks...
...current University policy also applies to graduate students with loyalties to other colleges who seize upon weekend confusion as an ideal time to get in a few strokes for their ex-alma maters...
...agony column" of the London Times asked for anybody who had seen the premiere of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, in 1895. A few dozen oldsters who responded got tickets to another premiere of An Ideal Husband, this time a movie starring Paulette Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international...