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...this country presently thinking upon religious topics. If more of them were here, the University, tolerant of their subject, could not help but sit up and take notice. Under these conditions, there is definitely room at Harvard for a religious spirit which, as long as it does not tamper with individual choice and diversity of ideas, can make a significant contribution to the purpose of the University...
...overwhelming vote of the wheat farmers in favor of quotas convinced him that it would be political folly to tamper with high support levels, though he still talks of a two-price plan for wheat (one for sales in the U.S. and one for sales abroad), with part of the domestic support price being paid for by a tax on processors...
...offset and at worst outweighed by their detects. Amateur athletics are not something plastic adjusting briefly to popular indignation then resuming their neo professional shape. De-emphasis must be permanent and thorough, despite incidental irritations. We hope that the Ivy League presidents in meeting assembled this January will not tamper with their current program, especially for so little purpose as the Princetonian suggests...
Littauer should not junk the extension program, for it is most valuable in its field. Nor can it stiffen its admissions requirements, for the extensioneers should be chosen primarily for their agricultural, not their scholarly ability. What Littauer can tamper with, however, is the doctor's degree itself. If the degree clearly indicated that the extension doctorate was in agricultural studies alone, there could be no complaints that standards were being diluted. For the farm educators' purposes, this qualification would rub no shine off their sheepskins. And it would close a loophole through which many academically average students have been...
Encasing the early bombs was a large mass of "tamper," i.e., a heavy metal such as lead or tungsten, whose inertia held the bomb together while the nuclear explosion was getting under way. If the tamper were eliminated, which is possible, the bomb would weigh not much more than an eleven-inch sphere of TNT (about...