Word: preception
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heap of sand." What was needed was the cement. Chiang's Kuomintang tried to provide it. Slowly, while tirelessly expounding Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, Chiang forged his own philosophy of rule. Deeply imbued with Confucian thought, it was a theory based on precept, on the loyalty of subject to ruler, of son to father. "If the ruler is virtuous, the people will also be virtuous," Confucius taught...
...Revenge," Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel III once said, "is a dish that should be eaten cold." Palmiro Togliatti, kingpin of Italy's Communists, followed this royal precept last week when it came time to punish a rebel in his court...
...true to Orwell. Manor Farm is run by a drunken brute named Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible to say which...
...Precepts resemble Harvard's section meeting except they are smaller (usually six students) and lead by a high-ranking member of the faculty (Usually a professor). These precepts, established in 905 by President Wilson, are the heart of the upperclass years and perhaps the most distinctive feature of Princeton's undergraduate education. The precept emphasizes logical thinking rather than factual knowledge. It is a time in the Princeton education when a professor can discover and correct any misconception in his students' minds while stimulating their reading interests...
...effective a precept must be small. Following World War II Princton's enrollment increased by 50 percent and put la terrific strain on the faculty and on the precept. As President Doods puts it, "something went out of the system which Princeton doesn't want to lose again." Accordingly, the President's Committee expects to report in June on how to keep down the enrollment to a maximum of 2900 an still meet the huge increase in war-baby students who will apply by the 1960's. Princeton is proud of the amount of time its best professors...