Word: trained
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Nevertheless, some of Bok's own biases emerge clearly. He is obviously preoccupied with the relation of the University to the rest of society--about the extent to which faculty members train their students to fill some useful role. This is an elitist view of Harvard, of course; he concludes with a brief statement of the role of the private university, describing such institutions as training grounds for the future leaders of America. "Society cannot develop the leadership it needs," he writes, "unless its ablest young people have an opportunity to come together and learn under the best possible conditions...
Below, waiting in the subway station, we found a dozen other pairs of weekend magicians dressed up to suit their urbane alter egos. We mingled and traded charms. When the train brought us all to Boston we scattered for a dozen different night spots. The two of us got on another car whose riders were all dressed to impress. An old couple on the bench next to us beamed. The woman said to her husband, "I hope you don't mind if I get up and start swinging in the aisles." He chuckled. They were going to hear Benny...
...warlord of the Northwestern Army, came to Tsinan. I joined some of the school's teachers and students in organizing a touring theatrical group that went to Peking. I left without telling my mother, only mailing her a letter at the railway station just before the train pulled...
...Vermont town meetings early this month, residents of 28 communities voted to bar nuclear plants and waste-disposal facilities in their towns. The Wisconsin legislature is now considering several bills that would restrict or ban nuclear plants. In a January interview with the Conservation Foundation Letter, Russell Train, who headed the Government's Environmental Protection Agency under President Ford, called for "the phasing out and eventual elimination of all nuclear power...
...June evening 51 years ago, a scared young man named Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones stepped off the train at Grumbling, a tiny community in the pine woods of northern Louisiana. At 19, newly graduated from Southern University near Baton Rouge, he faced a formidable mission: to teach biology, chemistry and physics, shape up a football team, strike up a band, act as registrar, and help cut firewood at Grambling's 25-year-old school for black teachers...