Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it is not altogether accurate to place the ceiling on need at the $4000 income level, it is safe to say that the utility of the scholarships diminishes above that point. With President Conant's statement of intention in mind, it becomes increasingly clear that intellectually and morally capable students of the underprivileged groups must be given greater opportunity to take their places at Harvard under the plans that were originally sketched out for this group. This means not the curtailment of the smaller and honorary national scholarships (the grants are scaled according to need) so much...
...those states in the Middle West where the scholarship plan is operative, the idea of education at Harvard has not taken on a more democratic hue. In the average mind, it is still limited to graduates of the suburban high schools who can afford the price. The simple expedient of sending representatives of the college to all secondary schools in an area, and not solely to those of the usual array of collected prep and suburban schools, would be the shot in the arm necessary to spread the notion of Harvard scholarships to a greater cross-section. A closer cultivation...
...next month the President had a real vacation in mind. He planned a nonstop flight to Mexico City for a visit with President Miguel Aleman. On the way back he would stop off at Waco, Tex., to get an honorary degree from Baylor University† and later in the week go on to witness part of the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean...
...Sons is social criticism, but in moral terms; it clearly insists on individual responsibility. It also attacks the mind wholly by way of the emotions. And with its unblushing penchant for theater-tense atmosphere, patly timed revelations and whopping climaxes-it is a compelling rather than an entirely convincing play. The production adds to the impact: Ed Begley as Keller, Beth Merrill as Keller's wife, and above all Arthur Kennedy as Keller's son, play with consistent force...
...studio took care of that. By the greatest good fortune, Screenwriter Casey Robinson (noblesse oblige) had made his Pacific Palisades house available, a charming English-type cottage spang in the middle of an orange grove. This was a great load off Deborah's and Tony's mind (L.B. believes that a good star is a happy star...