Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since Radcliffe shares the Harvard Faculty, it is difficult for me to see how she can use her independence," he said. Administrative independence does not seem very valuable, he claimed, if its main purpose is to gain privileges for Annex students...
...proper place of such instruction would ideally be in the schools. The situation has not changed in this respect, despite thirteen years, and it might be wise to try letting the schools fulfill their job. If sixty students come in with sufficient preparation to become sophomores, it does not seem unlikely that quite a few students have studied enough in one area to gain placement into more advanced courses in that area than the elementary level General Education courses...
...Advanced Placement program itself. With exemption students can fulfill a distribution requirement with courses which interest them, courses which fall into their specific fields of interest; without this freedom, they must simply take one more elementary level course. There is limited time at Harvard, and it would seem both fair and wise to free a little more of it for the student's own choice when he has fulfilled a requirement such as that in General Education...
Though refusing to favor any candidate for the Democratic nomination, Butler said he thought that Adlai Stevenson would not refuse nomination, were it offered to him. He stated, however, that while many party members seem to favor Stevenson, "most of the professionals are suspicious of a two-time loser...
Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...