Word: statements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This statement is contrary to fact. The Agency Corporation has consulted carefully with the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association from the beginning of our operations, and has not undertaken new ventures harmful to existing businessmen. In your recent news column accounts of our preliminary plans for a new photographic agency, the CRIMSON did its best to create the impression that the Square businessmen were upset. But, as the President of the Businessmen's Association, Mr. James Brine, said in your columns April 26, "The Agency is trying awfully hard not to interfere with business in the Square." Mr. Brine told...
Although the section of the report under consideration--the proposals concerning Honors candidates--is on the whole excellent, some of its implications need more explicit statement. The generalness of the general qualifying examinations, for instance, would be bolstered by a Faculty statement of intent declaring that such tests are, indeed, directed less at achievement in tutorial or courses than at broad knowledge of the field. The recommendations on the scope of tutorial, also, need full support to guarantee that upperclass tutorial will truly become a refuge for independent study and that sophomore tutorial be directed along the students' lines...
Whether or not Schnitzler had in mind any moral statement about the futility of finding enduring values in sex alone is a question of little concern to director John Heffernan. The senior member of the company at twenty-five, Mr. Heffernan puts an appropriately youthful zest into the whole production. He finds little irony in the lines and focuses the humor on desire, social inhibitions, frustration, and zany hypocrisy. A sociology of sex emerges which stresses the primacy of simple desire over attempts to cloak it in social idealization. For any who don't already know the plot, girl meets...
Members of the board of trustees and faculty of a college in Rhode Island subscribe annually to the doctrinal statement following: "We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writings, and as the supreme and final authority in faith and life." Could any but a sectarian mind believe that a loving, merciful, just God would harden Pharoah's heart (Exodus 11:10) so that he would not let the Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely...
...Your booklet is a fine statement."--Henry Noble MacCracken, former president of Vassar College...