Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior varsity lights did not fare so well in their contest. Harvard pulled up from fifth to fourth place with 400 meters to go, but could not narrow the two-length gap which separated them from the victors at the finish line...
...shame that a man of Dr. Leary's intelligence and vast experience has to suffer at the hands of a very narrow-minded society. Thanks for giving him [April 29] a pretty fair shake...
...spottily foliaged. I could see the Se Kong River in the background. A note I made at the time says: 'No question about it. From the river going east [toward South Viet Nam] is a large road. The trail winds and turns, the trees growing thicker in a narrow valley.' Sometimes we lost sight of the road. But it seems safe to conclude that it is one continuous trail capable of carrying trucks from Cambodia through Laos into Viet Nam. We flew eastward, diving to less than 1,000 ft. for as close a look as we could...
...Charles, the varsity lightweights almost immediately overcame a two-seat Princeton lead and slowly pulled away from the Tigers. As the Princeton cox frantically urged his crew on, trying to narrow Harvard's two length lead in the last quarter mile, the Crimson appeared almost unconcerned, keeping the stroke low, and clinging stubbornly to their smoothly earned lead...
...widespread professorial snobbishness toward anyone who consciously thinks about the techniques of good teaching. "It's a myth that once a man gets a Ph.D. he's a good teacher," says Earlham College President Landrum Boiling. The stress on the Ph.D. is, in fact, under sharp attack for producing narrow specialists. University of Texas Classics Chairman William Arrowsmith says that "liberal arts colleges should have the guts to say to Harvard and Yale that they don't want any more overtrained, overspecialized Ph.D.s, many of whom are really incompetent to talk to undergraduates." University of California President Clark Kerr deplores...