Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress, Coolidge said, "I want you to know directly from me that I regard the matter as closed, at least for the present. Any sort of reconsideration at this time would embarrass the person to whom the appointment has been offered and would be greatly to the disadvantage of the foundation...
William M. McCord, instructor in Social Psychology, said "The death penalty serves no useful purpose except as a revenge for society." The teacher of "Problems in Criminology" thought the question of capital punishment largely moral and one that every person must solve for himself. "It certainly does not serve as a deterrent," he added...
...said he "sees no harm in a five year trial period." (In the last seven years the death penalty has never been carried out.) "Almost invariably states without capital punishment have lower rates of murder," he said, "but there are thousands of variable factors that cause a person to commit murder...
...first of the bills, H. 707, would complement the present oath required for teachers that demands affirmation of support for the Constitution, a provision that the person was not and never had been a member of the Communist party. H. 708 would require presidents of colleges in Massachusetts to expel "communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs," on penalty of losing their charters...
...What every young person seeks in college from liberal education--whether or not he has articulated this--is self-discovery. What he wants most to know is what it means to be a human being, what is expected of him as such, what the world is, and what are the options in it that lie before him, and how he is to get on with others. In short, the really burning question that faces someone trying to live through his mind is what is he to do with his life? What such a person wants--what we all want...