Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the discussion, Carl Sloane '58, Council vice-president, said that the new system would result in the "Bullet Ballot," voting only for one person. He cited as evidence of such possible malfeasance examples of voter manipulation by ballot-box watchers he had seen in Dunster and Lowell Houses...
Members of the foundation will include distinguished individuals from various business and professional fields. Furcolo added that he hoped that Massachusetts would become the first state in which "no qualified person will be deprived of a higher education because of the lack of money...
Hopes that medical progress may prolong human life far beyond the 100-year mark are unrealistic. So said New York University's Dr. Morris Rockstein before the Gerontological Society in Cleveland last week. Despite advances already made, a person of 65 now has only a slightly greater life expectancy than one of the same age had in the past. Also, the fact that few people live much beyond the 100 mark indicates that this is "close to the potential maximum for the majority of human beings...
...process . . . This was misunderstood by certain professional educators, whose influence exceeded their wisdom, to mean that the end of the educational process is the adjustment of our youngsters to their environment with no particular concern or activity on their part. For example, grades were eliminated so that the young person might not suffer the frustration of feeling inferior to others . . . This enormous sensitivity and tenderness for the sense of security and adaptation of the child is a frightful travesty upon Dewey's thinking. His was a rigorous mind...
Short Cut to Hell (Paramount). He, mechanically: "I'm not a person. I'm a gun . . . It's my trade. My profession. I shoot people." She, tenderly: "There's so much more to you than you'll admit. 1 know it ... Your hands . . . they could be the hands of an artist...