Word: injection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discussing private schools, Cunningham stressed the "variety" and "adventure" which a good teacher can inject into secondary school learning through class-work, athletics and public relations. "Teaching is essentialy an act of faith," he said...
Like other movie stories about the lives of famous entertainers, the picture has three problems: to 1) find somebody to impersonate the entertainer who not only looks like him but can act like him too; 2) inject a little drama into the dull routine of success; 3) follow the facts of the subject's life without bringing on a libel suit...
...levels. Harvard may give such training only extra-curricularly, but there are still many undergraduates with the maturity and ability needed in television production. Undergraduate participation will ensure the fulfillment of the two fold aim of an educational station: to provide a high standard of production excellence and to inject into the medium a continuous stream of young people who see the potentialities of television as an art form and a medium of intellectual communication...
...that certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution . . . and it is difficult to see how (the divinity student's) position as an embryonic cleric can fall to inject a religious element into the organization. Heading P.B.H. with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extra-curricular activities. . . . P.B.H. has thrived partly because members have not thought in terms of one another's religion. This is the way it should remain. The Graduate Secretary should continue as a secular post...
Undoubtedly, the new appointee is quite competent, and his long record of social service bespeaks a devotion to the secular activities of PBH. But it difficult to see how his position as an embryonic cleric can fail to inject a religious element into the organization. And with PBH's hymn-singing days far behind, such an element would be undesirable because Brooks House's function is now to offer opportunities for social service along secular lines. Heading this institution with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extracurricular activities. Further, a divinity school...