Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoking problem varies among communities, Ferris claimed. "The more intellectual tend to believe what they read on this subject and not smoke," he said. While the problem may not be as serious at Harvard as elsewhere, he feels that it is still serious here...
...whose tireless activities range through varied fields, from scientific administration to advising the Government, the prize was presumably recognition of a lifetime of accomplishment. But Nobel committees tend to focus on the specific, and Wigner was cited for early theoretical work on the structure of the atomic nucleus and his early recognition of the shattering implications of quantum mechanics...
Moreover the school's impersonality often interferes with its educational system. For instance, students tend to blame Hunter's inflexible academic standards for their extreme grade consciousness; the college automatically expels any student whose index falls below a set level and allows no one to remain on probation for more than two consecutive terms. Further, admissions are equally impersonal, since they are determined solely by an involved computation which includes high school marks and SAT results...
...average student who is neither promiscuous nor too immature for sex, and who seeks to construct for himself a healthy and meaningful sexual life. That is very difficult at Harvard. I think there is a great deal of truth in Paul S. Cowan's statement that University regulations tend to "brutalize" sex. But aside from the physical restraints of the rules, the University imposes more subtle, and perhaps more serious limitations on sexual development. In its public stance the University appears to ally itself with, and thus reinforce the hypocritical, out-moded, and anxiety-producing morality of the "society...
Since leaving Cambridge in 1941 I have devoted myself to the study and practice of medicine with particular emphasis on gynecological and obstetrical pathology. It has been my experience that public officials tend to make a great deal of fuss about what is, after all, the exfoliation of a very modest amount of stratified, squamous epithellum. I trust that I am not so scleroic that I cannot side with hot-blooded undergradu ates on this issue. Each man and woman should be guided by his or her individual conscience, nothing more. William B. Ober...