Word: pith
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...perennial gladiatorial combat at Harvard between the proponents and opponents of research versus teaching, the debate rarely turns toward the pith of the controversy, namely the balance of research and development in the individual student. As a theory the whole question of the relative importance of research and teaching is debatable but since the Harvard attitude attaches significance to both these phases of education, a corresponding amount of attention must be paid to the influence of both teaching and research on the development of the student who seeks a reason for four years at college...
...from next door. Surfeited with his infidelity and his philosophy-"You have all my love, but not all my passion"-she lures the golf champion to her bedroom to expunge her love for her husband from her heart. This rash maneuver is not very convincing, but it does give pith to the advertisement which appeared last week in all Manhattan theatre programs: "What you think of this play may start an interesting discussion. Talk it out over a big plate of HORTON'S ICE CREAM...
Conjecture was not the only result of the war games, nor was the death (by drowning) of six naval men. The defeat of the scouting fleet and "destruction" of the Canal added point and pith to the arguments of two vociferous groups at Washington. Obvious was the boost given the Navy's cruiser program now before Congress (see p. 10). Less obvious, equally welcome, was the boost given to the proposed second interoceanic canal through Nicaragua by a sea-level route requiring few if any locks. As the war-game neared its final phase, New Jersey's Senator...
...national holiday. He has given us a precious "institution." It is sad to see an inferior member of the hierarchy of knowledge, a mere college, disobedient to high command. Dean Doyle of the George Washington University has sent to some four hundred universities and colleges a questionnaire of great pith and moment on "Collegiatism"--a marvelous word that surprises by itself. What are the habits of the undergraduate...
...alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...