Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first two questions assume that Harvard's system of frequent exams is superior to the more permissive European pattern. Without arguing pedagogy, it is clear that in both cases most of the learning derives from reading, and from associating with fellow students. We can hardly see a disadvantage in doing the reading in a foreign language and the associating with foreign students. We agree with a spokesman for History and Literature that "the difference between the two systems provides an educational challenge to the student who must resolve them...
...Beta Kappa member remarked that he feels superior to his contemporaies, and is most comfortable among other Phi Betes...
...holder of unpopular political views stated that he was getting, by virtue of his opinions, a better education at Harvard than other people, and is, conversely, imparting to his friends a superior education...
Andrade's lawyer, Phill Silver, has petitioned the California Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that California law permits only county superior courts to order sterilization, and only for two classes of persons-rapists of young children and state-confined sex degenerates. To Lawyer Silver, at least, a California municipal court judge has no right whatever to place fathers unable to support young children in the same category. Procedure that seemed perfectly proper to Justice Holmes in the '20s, Silver argues, is cruel and unusual punishment...
...remember. In this reticent, ironic, Quietly elegant first volume of autobiography (he plans two more), Waugh takes his life through school and Oxford, ending on the eve of his first littrary success. He insists that from early Childhood he sensed "another age which 1 instinctively, even then, recognized as Superior to my own." This nostalgia for "the Mid-Victorian ethos" later came to be a fixed theme of Waugh's books-and of his religion, his Tory politics, his testy and forceful prejudices...