Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely convincing. This is not to say that the plan does not point in the right direction; it is to say that the plan should go farther, to be thoroughly realistic. Superficially, the elements for a fine foreign-policy snapshot are present; let's keep in mind, however, that the subject in all likelihood won't hold still...
President Truman had made up his mind. He was helped to it by the attitude of many Congressmen who, having visited ravaged Europe, now saw the necessity of immediate action. One morning last week, the President met his Cabinet. He told them that there had to be a special session of Congress, that he had decided to call it for Nov. 17.* France and Italy could not wait until January...
...attempt to deny this fact, the bureau last year found seven students who claimed they wouldn't mind any amount of grime for a good job. They were sent to a factory in Lowell which offered quick advancement. The promotions were not forthcoming at the end of the week, but it didn't make any difference since none of the seven had stuck it out that long...
Fuller descriptions would be of benefit mainly to upperclassmen on the hunt for distribution courses. Concentrators presumably know their own field, and Freshmen have a reasonable advisory system, the Crimson Confidential Guide, and a limited choice of courses. With this in mind, careful editing of the catalogue could relax the lack-of-space pressure by raking out much non-essential material. In the current edition, space-eating incongruities run rampant: with one exception, not a single line is devoted to any middle-group Economics, Government, or Social Relations course, while Biology 106b, for instance--a graduate course entitled "Mycology...
...that what the world must have is a fuller cultivation of those qualities which are best termed spiritual. Whatever we may think as to their origin, as scientists, we should no longer sneer at them; for on their strength depends our own survival. Man leads a double life, of mind and spirit. If mind is suspect, as in religious fanaticism, man may become a creature only of his instincts; if spirit is suspect, as today when scientific materialism carries such authority, he is in danger of degenerating into a selfish and soulless mechanism. To be a whole man, he must...