Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team seemed to let down a bit and Northeastern put on the only sustained pressure it ever mustered. The Huskies' Roy Campion put one past goalie Brad Richardson at 6:07, and not until 15:06 could the Crimson get it back. Then Amory Hubbard slammed in a perfect pass from Tony Patton, to jump the score...
Without Senators Saltonstall and Tobey, President Conant's hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee might have turned into a free-for-all. On one hand were witnesses who played with Conant's speeches and articles as though they were so much taffy, perfect for twisting into any shape which appealed to them. As for many of the committee members, the hearing was largely a vehicle for getting platitudes on the record...
...ourselves to trying to prove to the world that it is true. Instead, we seem to acquiesce to the stale view that the ideal of a good education is only attainable by means of more and more outlay. We decide, for example, that athletes have their place in a perfect educational scheme, so we include a further subsidy to that department in a tuition rise that is serious enough in itself. Could we perhaps get along with fewer coaches, with a less elaborate program, and in this way make it easier for students to get a Harvard education? Similarly...
...constitution is a "fraud," he cried, and demanded Positive Action ("strikes based on perfect non-violence") to prevent its being accepted. Positive Action was a flop-and Nkrumah went to jail. Police who arrested him found in his pocket an unsigned membership card of the British Communist Party...
...more than musty perusals of dwindling philosophies. His second trip, during the war, was for the O.S.S. for which he did secret work throughout the East. His final excursion this fall was a combination of study and teaching. For some months he worked with a Jain monk "in a perfect Ivory Tower." Then he went on a tour of colleges lecturing in English on Sanskrit philosophy. He found that. The education system built by the British still survives. It was designed to turn out administrative officers...a type that India has less need of now. But the Indians have made...