Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of the tutoring schools has come to our attention again recently and has raised in my mind, at least, a very ominous question. The question is not what is wrong with the tutoring school system, but rather what is wrong with Harvard College? The tutoring school is not a cause of bad education; it is a symptom of bad education...
...Secret of Success. These ideas were set forth in the 1848 Manifesto and developed in Das Kapital and other children of Karl Marx's mind. The most interesting thing about these ideas is their success in the teeth of developments proving that Marx's main assumptions were wrong. He assumed, for example, that the spectacular poverty of industrial workers of his day would spread and deepen. The capitalist philosophers, who predicted rising living standards, were right. A hundred years after the Manifesto, however, the class struggle is sharper in spite of the fact that the living standard...
...Straight didn't want to fire anybody he'd had lunch with," said one staffer. Others complained that the boss kept changing his mind, kept nibbling away at his editors' powers. Said Edd Johnson: "The place was being run like a charity tea, with me as the caterer...
...earth can a judge decide between a Pomeranian and a pinscher, anyway? One Westminster veteran offered an expert's explanation: "The crowd sees only six dogs in the ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much of a dog, but of his kind, he was tops...
Yale was still without a coach. Columbia's able Lou Little was all set to take the job, but changed his mind this week. Why? He had just heard from General Ike Eisenhower, Columbia's president-elect. Said Ike to Lou: "You fit into my plans...