Word: ponderer
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...lawn in order to think better. For this is the first and only goal of a "university" that has neither students nor classes, and conducts seminars that no one is obliged to attend. Now 36 years old, the Institute is a unique haven for scholars to think, ponder and grow wise, shielded from life's more mundane distractions and freed from normal academic obligations. "The one thing we will never ask you," Institute Director J. Robert Oppenheimer tells newcomers, is 'What are you doing...
...deny that the History Department ought to consider changes in its tutorial program carefully. But carefully is not a synonym of slowly. The Department should begin to study the junior faculty's recommendations immediately. While it prepares to ponder over the proposals, hundreds of students in the University's largest department will be receiving an education that is not as good as it might...
...fabulous 1960s. Production, profits and personal income are at record highs and still rising. Yet last week the auto industry, at least temporarily, cut back production because of disappointing sales, and the stock market shuddered through its worst fall since 1962. Amid these conflicting currents, Lyndon Johnson continued to ponder one of the toughest decisions of his presidency: whether to raise taxes to forestall the kind of inflation that would inevitably lead to a downturn later or to avoid a tax hike for fear that it would hurt business this year...
...figure, were ruled out. On some stocks (21 on the Big Board and 13 on Amex) special margin requirements were set. American Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington last week reminded investors that "it is important, at all times, for people who assess the potential rewards of sound investment to ponder as well the inherent risks of ill-advised or casual speculation." Everybody talked about the small investor, but Etherington seemed to be pointing as well at mutual, pension and investment funds. Rules and reminders, however, did little to bank the fires. Last week, therefore, in the most stringent...
...Still, Ponder kept bucking the system. In the semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be the prerogative of the individual teacher...