Word: morasses
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Marvelous Morass. The ways that other colleges try to meet the new demands are at first glance mutually contradictory. To preserve liberal learning, Amherst still requires all freshmen to take the same three basic courses. Toward the same end, Vassar and Princeton make no specific requirements. Because they took college courses in high school, 150 of Harvard's freshmen enter as full-fledged sophomores, but Harvard tries to talk them into staying a full four years on the grounds that they need time to grow...
...rallied in shoulder-to-shoulder solidarity around Farm Bureau President Charles B. Shuman. In his opening speech Shuman put the pitchfork to present agricultural programs. The Agriculture Department, he said, seems "determined to either rule or ruin American agriculture." He called the costly price-support system a ''morass into which we have floundered." He warned farmers that a "vast bureaucracy of tens of thousands of political payrollers is around our neck." Then, switching to a proverb he never heard in his own Illinois. Shuman said: "Our situation in agriculture brings to mind the old adage...
Happily, a few islands rise above the morass of tedium. At the close of the Prologue near the beginning, An Actor strikingly initiates the change from major to minor; the orchestra follows. The hamming of Satan, Lucifer, and Astaroth in the Inferno and in Hell provides a pleasant relief, and the Virgin Mary has a delightful lyric song in Bethlehem in Part II ("My God, my sweet King...
...problem of how best to examine students has never been an easy one, and in opening discussion on this point the Committee on Educational Policy may lead itself, into a morass of endless, impassioned, and boring argument. Yet there is surely no doubt that discussion is worth the trouble, for if even one or two ideas are exchanged--and there will surely be many more than one or two--the University's educational system will be strengthened...
Time for Better Men. The Liberals' Pearson pronounced himself "delighted" with the June date and got off the first blows in a last Commons blast. Pearson judged Canada's affairs to be "in a morass from which the government is unable to retreat with grace or emerge with credit," went on to strum the two themes that the Liberals intend to stress on the hustings: that the Tories have shown themselves unable to cope with "economic stagnation" at home, and are answerable for a decline in Canada's prestige abroad. Recalling that the Tories once thundered against...