Word: know
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Most of the Masters, agreeing with Bender, emphasize the educational advantages of deconversion, rather than financial pressures. It is felt that Lowell and Eliot, for example, should be reduced in size to around 350 students. Under present conditions, dining halls are crowded, and the Masters are not able to know all their charges as well as they would like...
Back at the beginning of the century, when classes numbered only about 400 students, it was possible for an undergraduate to know at least a little bit about each person in his class, and in those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition...
...indignation and surprise which was voiced after the last Senior Class election is indicative of a problem which can only increase as time goes on. The vast majority of undergraduates come to know other students mainly through House contacts, and it is only natural that class-wide elections in which an invariably minority candidate becomes the First, Second or Third Marshal will engender more than a little bad feeling...
...Russians little they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems of a spectacular kind. One, "Slava...
...passage from Winesburg, Ohio which James Leo Herlihy takes for his text, Sherwood Anderson remarks that the unmarketable apples that the pickers disdain to harvest are actually choice: "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." But times have changed since Anderson's masterpiece appeared in 1919. Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author...