Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delmar Leighton appealed strongly for progress toward tutorial for non-Honors students, in his final report as Dean of Harvard College, released yesterday...
...moment the only clear trend in the College is the pressure toward higher and higher academic achievement with the presumed purpose of subsequent scholarly specialization. Certainly such pressure is not out of place in a university community. Every generation needs competent and inspired teachers, and every generation of teachers sees insits students the raw material of its successors. But one can seriously question whether the emphasis on academic pre-professionalism which at present characterizes the College is, in fact, a proper one. To the contrary, it is possible to suggest that this emphasis may work to the exclusion of other...
...through the years there has also been a minority report. The committee conclusion: If, after consideration, a Lutheran group finds social dancing "in accord with its objectives and to the best Christian interests of its members ... it may permit the same under careful supervision and guidance, always striving toward the goal that whatsoever we do in word or deed we do all to the glory of God and in the name of the Lord Jesus...
Even before the President's message was read, two Democrats occupying key positions in the Senate and House housing subcommittees, Senator John Sparkman and Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama, last week introduced housing bills that would go further than the Administration wants toward stepping up federal aid. The Rains bill, for example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down...
...ever a novelist died heroically at his work, it was Britain's Joyce Cary. For three years before he died at 68 in 1957, a rare, wasting nerve disease had gripped him in a relentlessly spreading paralysis. Toward the end he wrote with his arm sustained by a rope, his. pen tied to his hand. Then, when his limbs failed him entirely, he dictated until his lips could form no more words...