Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discovered meaning yet in Gertrude Stein...
...business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...
...Time to Prune. The Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary has also upped its standards, says Dean of Students Dr. Edward Stein. "We offer a five-to-ten-year debt and no salary to pay it off with when a student is through school, while industry offers a half to a full salary all the way through school. The result is a tougher, more dedicated kind of student. The bulk of today's students will be better ministers. This is the time to prune, not scoop in everything...
...Committee on Educational Policy, which proposed the change, will study the entire question of Reading Period in the future. This is partly on the urging of such skeptics as Jack M. Stein, professor of German, who voted for the proposal because "the freshmen should get in on the Reading Period, if there is one," but said that a great attraction of the idea is that "a lot of professors like to teach 12 weeks instead...
...Susan S. Stein '62, who visited Howard University in Washington, D.C., described the predominantly Negro school as "very social and sophisticated on the surface." With a few notable exceptions she found little intellectual motivation among the student body...