Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose has been unclear. It has hitherto fallen to butchers, marketing the thymus of the lamb and calf as the "neck sweetbread," to give the gland its only obvious usefulness. Now a British cancer researcher...
...would contend that a student who did not attend college would be just like one who did; but it is equally unclear that Harvard in particular is responsible for his achievements. It is possible today to argue that Harvard produces brilliant and successful men by attracting those with ability to succeed, holding them while they go through their own natural growth, granting them a diploma which carries great prestige, and, great achievement of all, convincing the alumni that the college which enjoyed was also the author of their success. Perhaps this argument can be refuted, but it is time...
...most diffuse and embarrassingly unclear aspect of this turn toward peace is its specific action goals. In its demand for explicit, clear, and public discussion of the reasons for resumption of testing and the implication of the shelter program for domestic liberties, the published policy statement is praiseworthy...
Just why Mr. Feininger and his courses will depart in a few months is muzzily unclear. Mr. Feininger himself attributes the idea to terminate his courses to former Dean Bundy, who supposedly decided in the spring of 1960 that all studio courses would be separated from the Fine Arts department, and, presumably, placed under the aegis of the new Carpenter Visual Arts Center--as soon as the Center was able to shelter these courses...
...Faculty should clear up the hockey issue it has raised and allowed to become unclear and often embarrassing. Once the terms of the hockey issue are defined, such organizations as the Undergraduate Athletic Council will know how to prepare their recommendations, and the Administration will have regained the respect it is slowly losing in the sports pages. Then, and only then, the Administration should decide whether the hockey team should go to the NCAA tournament this year...