Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system can be compared only to the "rotten borough" one of eighteenth-century England. Except that while in the latter case it often made for a homogenous Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it produces a heterogeneous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members, and who exert all their scrupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
Possibly the proposed plan will not be approved, possibly it will be amended. But whatever its particular failings and whatever its forte it deserves great consideration for it goes to the root of the matter. It looks in the right direction--towards the creation of a council which will represent not only the bodies but the minds of the undergraduates. --From the Harvard CRIMSON, February...
...matter what happens in the next few months, this year's campaign will not be so vociferous as last year's power struggle. At present, there are less than 200 members in the club, compared to last year's total of over...
...Irina B.M. Lynch, instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, said that one year's study of Russian would give a student the basic tools of grammar. "He could read scientific material if he was familiar with the subject matter," she declared, "but he would not be prepared for literary reading...
...city's high school science teachers and 40% of the mathematics teachers have the proper licenses to teach in their fields. In a refreshing stand for a teachers' organization, it also denounced the single-salary schedule, which, in giving equal pay to teachers, no matter where or what they teach, has removed "the incentive to qualify for the high school teaching license...