Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good bedside manner. Off duty, he indulged his yen for the fanciful in a voyage to India, a flyer in Paraguayan railway shares, a children's book about Noah's Ark. The strains of 20th century life left him wishing, now & then, for a good latter-day ark. In 1923, a friend startled him by announcing that "a small group of people now in London . . . has started building one." When Walker asked for the new Noah's name, he was told: "Gurdjieff...
...proposes to do the same sort of work in the field of drama. Here the choice must always be made between setting up a new faculty or department, or mobilizing the existing facilities of the University around the problems of a certain profession. Harvard has pioneered in the latter kind of development, and has thus managed to create diversity without stretching resources and administration too thin...
...Professional schools--"Two new buildings made possible by the successful effort of two years ago are under construction in the Business School. A new laboratory for applied science, to be known as the Gordon McKay Laboratory, is being built on Oxford Street. . . . With the completion of this (the latter) building we shall be able to increase our staff in several areas of engineering . . . it is our desire to train engineers and applied scientists of the highest caliber. For this reason, five special Gorden McKay fellowships for graduate study with a stipend of $2,000 each have been created to attract...
...latter-day role of statesman, he is handicapped only by misinformation, lack of knowledge, capricious judgment and a cultivated aversion for the reading of books. 'Tell me what's in it,' he demands impatiently, 'don't make me read it.' " Said the Post: he prefers to let others read, see, listen-and even write-for him. "Winchell's 'gossip' ... is primarily the edited product of diligent, harassed press-agents who give him first choice on all evil that they see, hear or overhear-and some of the good, if it involves...
...group ran into trouble from the beginning, Frankenstein stated, in determining how to get an accurate cross-section of students. They were undecided whether it was better to get all 300 testees from one house, or several from all the houses. The latter plan was chosen and every fourth junior was selected. This random method of selection will give the most accurate cross-section...