Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the individual has completed his four years in Cambridge, he has come out, if he is lucky, with what Henry Adams called the negative values of a Harvard education. That is to say, his mind is free. He has profited from what remains the most striking factor in the College: its individualism. Individualism, however, has the unpleasant effect in many cases of waste. It is this waste of the resources Harvard can offer that has made many educators here think in terms of more advice and control from the dean's office, prescribed courses, and similar remedies...
...Harvard to demand a high standard of education is certainly reasonable. For Harvard to say that it offers such a fine education here that no other institution may compare--and in effect that is what College policy maintains--is absurbd, particularly in the realm of foreign studies. William H. Wasserman...
...lawyers had been in frequent touch with Stockholder Masterson, a Philadelphia attorney, and the Detroit lawyer who filed the suit for him. SEC found all this hard to square with Eaton's previous testimony. It plans to call him back and see what he has to say...
...once, Bob Young had nothing to say. (He had already said that he would appeal to court and to Congress if ICC turned him down.) But no one thought that Bantam Bob, who crows louder than any other bird in the railroad yard, was going to give up his fight...
...South. De Forest had a faculty for revealing put-up jobs, or detecting phony sentiments, simply by writing down what people said. His recital of his postwar experiences in the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, S.C. is compounded of vivid scenes and well-remembered dialogue. Yet, say his editors, his book has not been used in any of the standard histories of the Reconstruction. One reason: historians have considered the Reconstruction as "a series of political transactions, rather than as the story of a people defeated, a race enfranchised, and a society overturned...