Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door of his study is always open to students, and though he might call them "Butch" or "Babe" or "Toots," thousands have gone to him for advice. "A university," says he, "is not created by textbooks but by atmosphere-the consecrated service to students by teachers. I try to impress on the students that we are just trustees of knowledge for the benefit of others. That those with learning must be generous. Learning for the sake of learning may be the ideal of some, but not here. We want learning for the sake of diffusion...
...powerful threequarter line may be negated, however, if the forwards do not combine well enough to gain regular control of the ball. New York has the advantage of a shakedown game played last Saturday in two inches of snow, but the Crimson needs a few good wins to impress the boys in California...
...free time in which to practice them. As one student puts it, "I think of Harvard men as wearing clothes rather than holes with clothes around them as we do here." He explained that no one wears a coat or tie at M.I.T. because there are few girls to impress and they would only get ruined in lab. Besides, they are not required...
...Alley out of business. The Sherry stood for Sherwood and the Powers was my middle name. Sherwood had one battered roll-top desk and I had the piano. To give the office a proper professional atmosphere, we evolved imitation montages of celebrity photographs and framed them to impress any stray visitors...
Some students industriously select the University's most esoteric-sounding courses to impress their friends and the folks back home. The more realistic usually seek a gut for a fourth course. The green book is full of courses; so, to please both these elements, the CRIMSON takes another plunge into it, this time to look for interesting Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday courses without burdensome prerequisites...