Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farnsworth suggests that the promotion of mental health, a necessity for world peace, rests primarily with college graduates. "If the colleges and universities will not take the lead in a matter so vital as the rapid development of the mental-health aspects of the behavioral sciences, neither we nor they will be left to contemplate the error...
Dean William D'O. Lippincott said early today, "There are several aspects of this case that bother me, but still I can hardly believe that any of our Princeton undergraduates would be implicated in such an act of violence. Certainly my office will give the matter the promptest attention, but of course things must go through channels. We must not be hasty...
...addition, it must be remembered that these are Latin peoples; no matter how many superficial Anglicisms have been adopted, there is much more correspondence in temperament to the Latin-American peoples who surround them than to the conservative and restrained ways of the British...
...scholarship nor the merger issue seem to require star chamber methods. The Council president suggested that open publicity on the foreign student scholarships might prove embarrassing to scholarship holders. This is highly dubious since the consideration was of the lack of funds and not of the individuals. Had the matter been made public, it is conceivable that students might have had a suggestion for augmenting the fund...
...Mexico on a vacation trip, persuaded her husband to go into business there as a mining engineer. She soon managed to become a friend of such conflicting personalities as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Siqueiros. Her splashy, arresting style is strong on color and well suited to her subject matter, e.g., a moody painting of Chapultepec Park's beer garden at closing time. Marx will show her works in Dallas and Houston in the spring, have her second baby in June, and in August set off for Paris...