Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, who did most of the reporting for this story, has followed the subject for five years. "When and if the sociobiological perspective becomes understood," says Galvin, "I feel that future generations will use it as matter-of-fact-ly as my generation has used the ideas of Sigmund Freud...
Although Judge W. Preston Battle failed to pursue Ray's tantalizing reservation, he did repeatedly ask Ray if he understood just what he was admitting and that he was waiving forever his right to a trial. Said Ray: "Yes, sir." The judge: "Has anything besides your sentence of 99 years in the penitentiary been promised to you to get you to plead guilty?" Ray: "No, no one has used pressure...
...20th century, there have been only three reasons that American scholars have chosen to study East Asia. The first was that they were the children of missionaries and wanted to grapple with the cultures that their parents, living as members of a tiny white community among Asians, had never understood. The second reason was that the scholars had been in the Far East, as it was then called, during the war, either in Japan for the American occupation or even, in rare cases, in China. The third reason was John King Fairbank...
...following article represents an attempt to dispel some of the simple generalizations and properly define the pre-professional ethos at Harvard. Before these terms can be clearly understood, a few general propostions must be established...
...source in the administration said that the most important aspect of this report was that it presented the Faculty with an explanation of the admissions procedure. The admissions committee works with a great deal of autonomy, and the faculty wanted to make sure that it understood what was going on and that it had some input into the process. And the task force report shows this aspect of its work: the first recommendation the report makes concerns compensation for faculty members who serve on the Faculty Standing Committee on Admissions, and the second requires the dean of admissions to submit...