Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amiable castles of learning where faculty and students worked harmoniously together. The early U.S. college teachers were nonprofessionals, often aspiring clergymen or wealthy aristocrats; they saw themselves "as policemen whose job was to keep recalcitrant and benighted undergraduates in line." The faculty, in turn, was intimidated by domineering presidents intent on "imposing their personal stamp on the entire college." The aim of trustees was generally to promote a special interest-a religion, a social class, a vocation or locality. As a result, they "intervened in college affairs far more disastrously than is usual today." Riesman and Jencks cite a number...
John Endecott, sometime Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, has come to the settlement of Merry Mount, near Wollaston, Mass., with the intent to chastise its inhabitants. Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole. Its leader, Thomas Morton, flauntingly lives with the daughter of the local Indian chief, and carries on a thriving fur trade with the Indians by the dangerous practice of selling them firearms and liquor...
...Rangers in their marksmanship to pick off arsonists or to "maim" running looters, supposedly hitting them in the legs to bring them down. Moreover, warned U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the indiscriminate use of "deadly force" could lead to "a very dangerous escalation of the problems we are so intent on solving...
...total on the card was correct). Nor will last week's incident be the last-unless something is done about changing a rule that requires a golfer to test his math as well as his skill under the stress of competition, and penalizes mistakes without regard to intent...
Certainly nobody in his right mind gives himself a higher score for a hole than he actually shot. Why should he be penalized at all for such an obviously unintentional goof? Only in the case of a golfer who signs for a lower score does the question of intent arise-and even then, a quick investigation should satisfy officials as to whether cheating was involved...