Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even potentially, a red-blooded he-man you will suffer certain physiological and psychological changes after seeing this week's film at the Brattle. With legs a trifle bowed, your stride will be longer and your weight better balanced for that tiger-like spring into action of which you are, no doubt, totally incapable. Your arms will swing free, hands near your hips for the lightning draw, and the dangerous glint in your steely eyes will warn the world that here is a real mean...
...concentrated in this field. By last year, although the number of students in the College had risen by more than a thousand, their numbers had fallen below 900. It is difficult to say what determines undergraduate concentrations . . . but the apparent lack of appreciation from which the humanities seem to suffer in the eyes of today's undergraduates is disturbing...
...that the emotional intensity has spent itself, it is clear that Harvard did not suffer, but grew in popular respect because of her refusal to make concessions in order to placate an irascible, if limited, public opinion . . . . Because the faculty, administration, and governing boards worked and stood together in this difficult situation prolonged during two years, a very precious internal health and sense of community within the University have been incalculably strengthened...
...themselves ill" through strain or worry. But it was only in recent years that anyone advanced a coherent theory of why this occurs: applying his "general adaptation syndrome" theory (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950), Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye minutely described how body tissues, adapted to normal stresses, sometimes suffer severe damage because of fatigue, worry or even bad eating habits. Still unanswered was the question of just how individual body cells act under stress. This blind spot stymied the search for remedies...
...campus, he had apparently neglected a few essentials. His control had been so tight that the university had become "unquestionably the lengthened shadow of President Byrd." As a result, said the association, there was a tendency on the part of facultymen to "shrug off" responsibility and for departments to suffer from "sterility and lack of ferment." In spite of much improvement since it was last inspected in 1935, the Medical School was in many respects 15 years behind the times. Its facilities were overcrowded, its salaries "definitely low," its library "grossly inadequate." As a matter of fact, almost every library...