Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...microphones were installed by its police in the interests of tranquillity on the subways. The Transit Authority claimed that it wouldn't have dreamed of using the material thus gathered in strike-breaking or anti-union pursuits. But legal or illegal, the behavior of the Transit Authority in this matter can only be condemned. Assemblyman Savarese, who started the investigation, probably hit the nail on the head when he called it "loathsome," "shoddy," "disgraceful," and "a dirty business...
...there were many points which the poll did not cover. In particular, he cited the absence of a parent's consent clause in the questionnaire and suggested that there might be considerable discrepancy between a student's "whim" and the moderating influence which a parent might exert in the matter...
...college raises special problems. There are a good many Harvard students who, regularly or occasionally, apply to our psychiatric staff for guidance and treatment. Such treatment requires for its effectiveness complete confidence on the part of the student in his psychiatrist. Criticism in this area is a matter to be handled with great delicacy; here assertion becomes action--action which might destroy the necessary confidence. I have found Dr. Farnsworth's book most sensible and even wise. But although, as a teacher, I have had some experience with emotional troubles in students, still I speak only as a layman...
...possible for a student to get a degree without getting an education (I am now speaking of college generally, not of Harvard only). For education is primarily a matter of attitudes. By an educated man I mean one who has achieved a self-knowledge of his ignorance and consequently has waked up from his dogmatic slumber; one who has a sense of wonder leading to active inquiry--and here I have in mind a concern for the truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that...
...left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed arteries...