Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, yesterday offered "an opinion and a suggestion" for Monday's meeting. Declaring that a professional director and technical director were essential to the long-term success of the new theatre, he suggested that the theatre committee "look carefully into any financial arrangements it makes with College drama groups...
...giving substance to such middle class ideals as order, planning, ambition, and achievement. During his four year stay at college this youngster turns from his teen-age dreams to the impersonal requirements of his future career--work and individual responsibility. His college degree symbolizes his surrender to the success ethic, and his ability to gradate foreshadows ability in the conference room and at the bargaining counter...
...social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born to the purple have trouble retaining their inherited status without this symbol...
...neither function can survive alone. The machine which focusses exclusively on making leaders will have an intellectually moribund faculty which cannot set the right example for the students. Only when the academic mind is operating at full efficiency can it make its viewers love the smell of success better than the smell of a TV dinner...
Venkataraman stresses the importance of the Community Development Plan in India's economic success. "Community volunteers are an important part of the government. A village agrees to provide 25 percent of the materials for a school or hospital, and the government does the rest. Now it has gotten so we can't keep up with the villages' initiative...