Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date for the game and for the evening. "I was upset," he says. "It hurts you to play your hardest and then lose. But the rest of the day wasn't too different than I had planned." Of course, he did not shrug off the defeat. "I must have thought 200 times--what if I had done this, what if I had done that. But I didn't go out and get drunk or anything," he says. Most of the other players spent an unusually quiet evening, with friends or dates or alone...
...flight of Metaphysics always terminated with a social and practical turn.... Upon the whole the forces that have influenced me have come from persons and from situations more than from books." He expressed the faith that the philosophy of the future would be characterized by unification or integration of thought without artificiality...
...lecture was over and Vag's mechanism rumbled with what passes for a yawn in tape recorders. "No sections, no tutorial," he thought. "No wonder they said junior year was worth waiting for!" Bump, bump, bump, Vag maneuvered his way down the steps of Sever. "Off to fresh woods and pastures new," he mused cheerily as he rolled up the walk to Lamont...
...independence, and who scoffs at other Ivy Leaguers and more distant colleagues who are still spoon-fed by a bevy of counselors, advisors, and deans. At Harvard, freedom is an almost sacred word, with individualism only slightly less exalted. But freedom implies responsibility, which is not so often thought of. During the college years, new freedoms appear at a bewildering rate, and inevitably some cannot be immediately coped with. There is freedom of time and of action in great quantities. The student usually makes his final post-adolescent break with parental authority and many of the values of home...
...remarks are at all accurate to the case, perhaps we ought to be a little humble before this reprimand, even thought we may know that we as individuals do not really deserve it. For we are not altogether guiltless, if only in that we have allowed ourselves to be so poorly represented. Surely we ought to take care not to make the egregious mistake of supposing that the issue is one-sided; and we ought scrupulously to avoid letting those lead us or speak for us who have made the imposition of the symbol imperative. Robert E. Gahringer, (Ph.D...