Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every time you "win" at quarters, some other guy gets to drink your beer, burp in your sober little face and insult...
...better," Bennett bellowed. Not exactly a typical birthday greeting. Although Bennett raised some valid points--such as the problems with Harvard's advising system and the Core Curriculum-the good secretary failed to butress his conclusion with anything resembling researched support. Even Bok said Bennett didn't sound too "sober...
...Secretary Bennett's speech raises important questions about the role of universities and the education they offer. Instead of pursuing the questions in an informed and sober manner, he has followed his penchant for delivering highly publicized polemics against educational practices which he has not studied in detail and policies with which he happens todisagree," Bok said in a statement about thespeech which will be delivered in Sanders Theatertoday...
...obviously is not a neutral observer on the subject of higher learning. Too often, though, his biases muddle his attempt at a sober piece of work. One could easily come away from the book thinking that all the good being done in America's universites is the work of administrators who need to overcome the retarding influence of a distracted, if not apathetic faculty...
...professionals." Further, according to Brown and other organizers of the event, the vents (for that is what they call one another) are a little ticked off at being picked on by the press as odd, for theirs is no more odd than a gathering of philatelists. They desire a sober and evenhanded report for once, and so, as far as this department is concerned, they shall have it. The dearth of seriousness in the lines that preceded these is regretfully noted, and the clerk is instructed to strike them from the record...