Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday's Council also took up the matter of Harvard undergraduates holding executive positions on the Signature magazine staff. The general question of male membership in 'Cliffe organizations was referred to the Board of Club Presidents for investigation...
...views. It is perfectly possible, and in some institutions it is required, to present controversial questions in a neutral manner. However, the "on the one hand and on the other hand" approach seems to me to leave much to be desired when we come to as clear-cut a matter as probity in public life. The notion that every classroom should become a public forum is patently absurd. To the best of my knowledge, all persons enrolled in my course have done so voluntarily. That being the case, I am afraid they will have to put up with what...
...matter of individual effort, however, things are not so rosy. The big gun in the salve of diversity, William E. Wiggin's weighty sociological analysis of the Jew at Harvard, seems to have little meaning. His statistics are interesting (if true); but just why he was impelled to write the article is unclear. That Harvard's Jewish students rank high scholastically, that they are active in extra-curricular groups, and that they are not in the clubs are facts well-known to those who care about them. It's a fine idea to run non-fiction research articles; but this...
...regardless of the individual articles, the editors have accomplished a great deal in this issue to put their magazine on a more stable basis. The spread of subject matter is probably the only thing that will save a sagging circulation; it also makes for a far more readable Advocate...
...recorder, they took down the patter and actions around dice tables, hoped to use it to teach Monte Carlo's croupiers to talk and act like those in Nevada. Ceresol had his doubts that fast and reckless craps would ever appeal to the dignified European gambler. For that matter, Monte Carlo's rules would not be too appealing to Americans. Said Ceresol: "We will take back your game, but not your odds." In Nevada, the house percentage is 1.4%; in Monte Carlo, it will...