Word: references
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, to clear up some misunderstandings: the CRIMSON did not refer to English A papers but to papers in other courses when discussing the worth of papers in the old days. secondly, Drs. Rhinelander and Graubard confuse the CRIMSON's gripes about Gen. Ed. Ahf with its criticisms of the standard General Education courses. A B papers gained by five hours work has no place in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences courses. But if the Confidential Guide questionnaires are accurate, they do crop...
...Pursuit of Happiness," in which you correctly state that housewives were made happy by the removal of bans in most states on the sale of ready-to-use colored margarine [TIME, Jan. 12]: you refer to margarine as "oleo." As you undoubtedly know, the term, a reference chiefly to margarine made many years ago, is no longer accurate...
Second, "no person shall be compelled" must be understood to refer to compulsion by the Government. There is nothing unconstitutional in a private employer's threat to fire an employee if he refuses to testify. And, in view of the interest of universities in upholding the standing of the teaching profession, it is not surprising that some university administration have seen fit under some circumstances to use this type of private compulsion. The man who is discharged for his refusal to testify in such cases, whether innocent or not, is willing to appear guilty. His discharge helps to protect...
Pieces of Ivory. The book was a critical success. It was a mannered, exotic tale about a circle of aristocrats "so powerful and exclusive that . . . Romans refer to them with bated breath." ("Tell Mr. Wilder," said one of the high-born ladies with some amusement, "that we are not really so interesting.") The book was a precocious effort of a precocious young man, groping for something as yet beyond his powers. He hinted that his characters were ancient gods in modern dress, and that one minor figure was a portrait of Keats. In effect, Wilder had bundled Rome...
...apply these days to corrupt practices, whether of the minor variety, as in the recent stuffing of a beauty-contest ballot box, or of the grand public crookedness which too often prevails in the islands. The word is "anomalies." It first began to be used after the war, to refer to deals in surplus war stocks. The government has even set up a special "anomalies tribunal" to try offenders. What the plain people would rather have is government free of anomalies...