Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enemy of the People" deals with the root problem of democracy: are the common people, the "popular majority," competent to rule, or should the government be entrusted to the superior few, the intellectual supermen? The theme is alive today as it has never been before, and yet Ibsen's play fails to make it live on the stage...
...Clearly superior for the second time in two years, the Rutgers football team came to Cambridge last Saturday, scored 31 points, gave up 7, and helped point out to 17,000 patrons of the art what Coach Dick Harlow probably knew all last week...
Odds on the outcome of tomorrow's meeting, the second in the history of the two, elevens, are steadily shifting to Coach Harvey Harman's Scarlet. Indicative of the relative power of Rutgers, two touchdowns superior to Harlow's men last year, was the announcement from New Brunswick, N.J., that fullback Al Malekoff and right half Harvey Grimsley, have been medically cleared to play out probably will not start...
...chief interests nowadays are Harvard and football. He is contemplating a book on old-time football, and also hopes to publish various sketches and reminiscences of his life. About Harvard he is enthusiastic, and being broached on the subject, will tell you forcefully, "Harvard is in every way superior to what it was in the gay Eighties, and the student body seems much more earnest than in my days;" but he won't stay talking to you long, for there's plenty for a man to do in Cambridge these days...
Yale's scientific program is designed to put in practice the warning Dr. Sinnott gave his fellow scientists last week: "The sciences must be taught not as a privileged and superior discipline but as parts of a great whole and against the background of all human knowledge. Only whole men can save the world today...