Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "As president of two universities, you had the patience of Job, the endurance of Samson, the wit of Puck, and the virtue Caesar's wife had not. All these qualities . . . you will bring to ... the baffled world of diplomacy, where good humor and a clear mind are more effective than legalism and ceremony...
...racial integration. Over the years the Daily Times has taken the most forthright stand of any major Southern daily in favor of gradual, peaceful integration under the law of the land. Often scorned as "that nigger-lovin' sheet," the Daily Times has paid a price for speaking its mind: during the past eight years, circulation has dropped by some...
...deny him the right to a personal opinion, and, as one rather pompously put it, "We haven't caught him in any overt act" to advance his religious ideas within the University. It is a question for the future as to whether the President's ideas lead in his mind to University policies that will be-4This visit to President Pusey in Massachusetts Hall by a group of prominent members of the Faculty clearly emphasized that the recent "religious controversy" involved a conflict much deeper than a short, hot squabble over the use of Memorial Church...
...House Plan, cautioned the Class of '33: "But when all this is over, when glittering generalities on the value of a college education, fight talks from the football coach and captain, ecstasy and despair over triumph and defeat have faded into a dim haze in the subconscious mind, the class will gradually realize that with the beginning of their sophomore year they wil be a part of one of the most important social experiments ever attempted in American education...
...Great Depression crept slowly westward during the fall of 1930, but great men were speaking of an upturn, and optimism still gripped the public mind. Black Thursday was a year old, Europe seemed to be heading for hell, and Carl Joachim Friedrich, then an assistant professor of Government, stated "There is no probability at all of the establishment of a dictatorship in Germany...