Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncertainly about the time required leads in turn to another kind of uncertainty--financial uncertainty. Doubt and confusion on this score have a host of disastrous effects. Many superior men, facing unknowns here, abandon thoughts about working for a Ph.D. and realistically go off to law or the like. In the light of our pressing need for college teachers, nothing could be more underisable...
...past has united Harvard and the Monastery in a number of ways," stated Father Granville Williams, the Superior. He spoke seated in the Common Room, where all guests are greeted. The room, like most in the Monastery, is usually in semi-darkness and faces Memorial Drive and the Charles River...
...Father Superior accepts the credentials of a candidates, he enters a period of postulancy lasting from three to nine months. During this time he must wear an ordinary choir cassock so long as he remains in the Monastery. Outside the enclosure, he resumes normal dress...
Cliched Spirit works more wonders than its tired reputation admits. Yesterday's M.I.T. squad, like last year's played a loose, seldom coordinated game to beat a superior Harvard team with a spirit Harvard could not pass around...
...majority of the schools give frequent tests and examinations, assign long hours of homework, spend generously on their libraries. They are not afraid to injure young psyches by publishing academic honors or assigning students to groups according to ability. About half the schools give superior students college-level work. Only one principal bothered to mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When...