Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintains a permanent option on an area which contains one-third of the endangered homes. F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, president of the AHC and a Harvard Overseer, stated recently that if the AHC finds no use for the land in three years' time, the option will revert back to the University, and possibly from the University to other medical agencies...
...blues-had his staff order some kitschily elaborate threads for 150 of his White House police from a Washington military tailor. What did the President think of the uniform? "He likes it," reported Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. Some guests may have wondered whether the White House would soon revert to its old name. For a time, in the 19th century, the executive mansion was known as the President's Palace...
...small. The proportion shrinks further after graduation. For his part, Gerzon seems to believe in a permanent estrangement of the generations. Such a view lacks foundation. After returning home to a job in a Middle American community, even radical college students may well revise their political stances. Many will revert in time to the party affiliations inherited from their families. Our generation will probably prove a conservative...
...Studies suggest that a significant and perhaps increasing proportion of our population falls into the category of diagnosable mental illness," Grinspoon said. "Faced with high levels of environmental or intro-psychic stress, both groups, healthy and ill, may revert to more primitive modes of thinking, often characterized by magical explanations and symbolic usage...
...matter come in. Why not scuttle the sixteen-course requirement as well and leave every man's education up to him? I have doubts about how well that would work out. Ideally, we should omit the four years too, and the whole community revert to the Greek university, a community for inquiry where a person stays as long as he deems needful. But that kind of university also should not grant degrees. Maybe the time will come when we can seriously entertain such a possibility. But given the function of the B.A. in current American society, we would do many...