Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There has lately been much discussion in student circles about that characteristic of Harvard undergraduates which we choose to call "indifference,"--a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference--to keep to the more general term--is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world...
Grants totalling $171,000 to the University for support of short-term research were announced by the National Science Foundation yesterday...
...Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella brought something that is currently in short supply in the U.S.: a new, positive foreign-policy idea. Under a plan advanced by Pella, the U.S. and the 17 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation would set up a joint fund for easy-term economic development loans to Middle East countries...
...psychiatry, Dr. Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital reported, the drug is equally effective as a "psychic energizer" for long-term hospital patients and the at-large depressed whom he sees in private practice. One woman's depression, which had defied seven years of psychoanalysis and two years of tranquilizers, yielded dramatically to iproniazid. Equally striking is the case of a professor of medicine who suffers from occasional dizziness and constipation on heavy iproniazid dosage, but refuses to cut down because he would rather suffer these than risk a recurrence of the depression that...
...story house on Division Street, persuaded fathers to donate equipment and mothers to help with the secretarial work, finally opened last fall with 13 children aged 3½ to nine. By last week the McCormicks had enough children on their waiting list to assure them of an enrollment next term of 35, which is all Adastra can hold in its present quarters...