Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imparting knowledge and information should merely be one of a number of goals for a college. Learning of this sort is highly perishable, quickly forgotten unless it is used frequently by students in their later lives. As a result, the amount of knowledge that our graduates actually retain from their college years is probably much smaller than many of us would like to believe. This problem is compounded in certain fields where information often grows stale and irrelevant or new knowledge steadily overtakes old theories and generalizations. For these reasons, to base a college education simply on the acquisition...
...altogether. Three days before Christmas, with only $5,000,000 of the fiscal 1973 appropriation contracted out, he simply ordered the Agriculture Department not to spend the remaining $220 million. His action has stirred a whirlwind of resentment among some Representatives and Senators who are determined to see Congress retain its power over the national purse strings. Several bills that aim at forcing Nixon to spend the REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House...
...While no definite answer exists, we must all agree that there is some sense in which a man must always retain the right to die, either by his own decision, or, in the case of advanced illness, by the decision of those closest...
Fonda told the audience of about 500 in Sanders Theater that the role of the antiwar movement would be primarily educational. "As long as we don't know who the Vietnamese are, as long as we don't see their faces, we are doomed to retain the thorn of Vietnam in our side," she said...
...women. But the surviving Jesuit colleges are not that much different. Their seminarians live fraternity-style in neighborhood houses or apartments, receive monthly checks just as those in Manhattan do, come and go as they please. What Woodstock lacked, though, was the geographical cohesiveness of which the other campuses retain at least a semblance...