Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During Schlesinger's speech, the History professor questioned the meaning of the term "Free Enterprise." He said it either meant freedom from government intervention or freedom from mon- opolies and cartelization. If the former is reliant, "the Free Enterprise members must face political chaos because the people will not stand for 'apple selling again...
...Freshman thus becomes the embryo of that self-reliant "individual" typical of Harvard student bodies. Not until his Sophomore or Junior year will be realize that he has also become a victim of advisory indifference. Then, if he is like the many upperclassmen now in the University, he will regret having taken, or not having taken, certain courses during his Freshman year. He will wish that somebody had told him that all University regulations are flexible, and that there had been no need for him to wallow exclusively in Freshman courses for a year. He will feel that intelligent guidance...
Next year there will be three games away. If the HAA does not pay the $7,000 the band will need in order to play at these games, the organization will not offer a repeat on this season's self-reliant excursion to Virginia, which turned into a financial disaster. The HAA may point helplessly at its annual deficit. Such a deficit, however, in a university that almost always contrives to have every individual department round out the year in the black, is largely a matter confined to the Treasurer's bookkeeping. If the HAA were to take a lively...
...armed services, for veterans and their families. The post at Narsarssuak Fjord is only one of the 281 clubs, canteens and clubmobiles still maintained by 2,800 Red Cross workers overseas. The Red Cross would like to reduce the total, but military commanders beg them to stay: the self-reliant, battle-hardened G.l.s are gone, and in their place are bewildered youngsters in need of a stabilizing, familiar refuge. To suit the youngsters, the whole recreational program has been changed. Said one director:-"We have had to plan entertainment as we would for children. Even quiz questions have been simplified...
...primary purpose is to produce self-reliant, socially responsible, community-minded citizens." He adds with a grin: "Too many so-called well-educated people - including ministers as well as businessmen and engineers - are channeled in their small ruts...