Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senior faculty treated the tutors' proposals as something selfishly of the tutors, for the tutors and by the tutors. They neglected the "teacherly" motivations for reforms such as the senior seminar. Fleming spoke of the tutors' trying to "unload" thesis writers into the seminars, and Handlin asserted that, all things being equal, no undergraduate would opt for the senior seminars, and some people might have to be forced into the program...
...yellow mongrel named Fido. The most startling picture of all (see below) proves that John Wilkes Booth and five of his fellow conspirators were present at Lincoln's second inauguration. Booth, standing on a balcony behind the speaker's stand, could easily have shot Lincoln as he spoke...
...good deal easier than picking them at age ten. One student out of the first group--20 member of the Class of '61--had grown up in California's Imperial Valley, where his father made $4500 a year icing railroad cars. His mother, a Mexican, spoke little English, and neither parent wanted their son to go to college. The student's Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score was 415, and his math score was 452. The college guide books caution that scores this low often indicate a serious inability to cope with college work. Yet the boy was first...
...every time a lady doffs her hat just to do some talking, she wrecks the hairdo. With matters thus brought to a head, the committee waived the 344-year-old rule, allowed that the girls could talk with their hats on. In a black stovepipe creation, Lady Burton immediately spoke out: "The peers have stood up to it very well...
...revenues in the next fiscal year, and that means the U.S. can afford to boost its total federal spending by $8.5 billion without causing significant inflationary pressure. If spending bulges much higher, the economists can fight inflation by brandishing the other sides of their Keynesian swords. Though Keynes spoke more about stimulus than restraint, he also stressed that his ideas could be turned around to bring an overworked economy back into balance. Says Walter Heller: "It should be made entirely clear that Keynes is a two-way street. In many ways we're entering a more fascinating era than...