Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roommates described him last night as "a quiet, sensitive, and very thoughtful person...
...writing to you because you are the one person who has the power to obtain a new coaching staff, and because I believe in and cherish the traditions of Harvard football. In making the changes I would suggest that at least two of the assistant coaches be former Harvard players...
Everybody Happy. But Alfred H. Williams, president of Philadelphia's Federal Reserve Bank, the first witness to appear before the committee in person, thought differently. The inflationary forces in the U.S., he said, were due in large part to the Government's "zeal for social justice," which has led to the writing of too many blank checks to meet demands of "all claimants in such areas as agriculture, veterans' affairs, housing and local depressed areas...
...definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore, it may be even harder to draw the line between the effects attributable to a Harvard education and the mere continuation of personality traits which have formed in a person before college. When we look at a Harvard graduate, how are we to know--even with the help of self-evaluation--whether he is a "whole man" because of Harvard or in spite...
...that will benefit them while they are here and after they graduate; but nothing can alter the fact that Harvard has little or nothing to do with the formation of character which so greatly colors the life of any student before he comes to Cambridge. This means that no person or persons can accurately gauge the effect of four years at Harvard upon the development of the "whole man," because under the tradition of freedom of which this college is justly proud, those four years can be anything from an orgy of bridge, women and spirits to a protracted eyestrain...