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Communists, Conant believes, are of necessary part of an international secret conspiracy. As such they are unfit teachers and he would not now knowing engage on for his faculty. Nor, on the other hand would he institute any drive to uncover possible Communists at Harvard "the cure is worse than the disease in an academic community." Conant admits that he frankly had no idea of while he would do if a trusted faculty member walked up to him one day and said "I am now and have always been a Communist. Do something about it." Say Conant. "You could...
John, 21, suffered from a childhood predilection for wringing the necks of chickens. Last year when two little Bath girls were found strangled, John, who had already been certified as feebleminded, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and committed to Broadmoor. There, he behaved so well that he was given the privilege of wearing civilian clothes...
...unable to imagine any other role for women but that of housewife and mother, felt that higher education was a complete waste of time and effort. And a third group, doubtless composed of the real benighted conservatives of the day, felt that college could only result in rendering [women] unfit or unwilling for marriage and motherhood." After reviewing the statistics, the book concludes : "By and large the Former Coed seems to be doing pretty well at marriage . . . Any theoretical fears that college might make a woman unfit for matrimony seem to be thoroughly dispelled by the facts." As our Georgia...
Last week white-bearded Sarel Alberts invited white-bearded Dolf de la Rey to visit his farm. He had been thinking things over. Said Alberts to his lifelong friend and enemy: "I know the Nationalists well. They are unfit to rule the country. I want to join Torch and fight them...
...more hostile, suspicious, stubborn, unconventional, and adventurous. In intellectual life they tend to the direct and concrete rather than abstract expression and are less methodical than non-delinquents. In regard to background they are products of homes of little understanding, affection, and stability, in which the parents are usually unfit to serve as examples for their children...