Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overextension of two roles: that of administrator and leader as bishop, and that of teacher-scholar." Last fall, tired by his double duties, Pike, who is now 53, took a six-month sabbatical, spent most of it studying at Cambridge University. There, he said, "I experienced the sheer joy of staying with something for more than a disconnected hour...
...Clark Kerr calls a campus that "will seem small as it grows large." Right now, it seems only too small. While dormitories for Cowell near completion, students are jammed eight to each 58-ft. trailer, where, says one, "If you don't like your roommates, it's sheer hell." They file in long lines past a trailer steam kitchen to load cafeteria trays, eat in a field house. But the administration building is finished, classes are being held in the natural sciences building, and a second college, named for Adlai E. Stevenson, will open next fall...
...writes or speaks. The son of a salesman, he grew up in Terre Haute, decided while still in grade school to join the Jesuits. McKenzie was ordained in 1939 and three years later was assigned to teach at the Jesuits' seminary in West Baden, Ind. There, "out of sheer desperation," he began to write...
Washburn sees the race as a "sheer teeth-gritting test of strength," and he been working with his squad all week, trying to improve power...
...sheer shortage of teachers and a system of tenure that ensures every professor his job for a lifetime prevent administrators from firing stale and incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual...