Word: unorthodox
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Socialist club, quit the campus entirely when four professors were fired for airing unorthodox views. He was later "semieducated" at Harvard, served as a smallarms instructor during World War I, taught for a while at Northwestern for $1,700 a year. Once again he quit, this time because "they were changing over from a good, small school into a metropolitan university, and standards were falling, well, wherever they happened to fall." By the time he returned to Harvard as an instructor and settled down in Cambridge, Mass., his writings were already beginning to sell...
...University is not contemplating any drastic changes in its approach to Engineering, Dean Van Vieck of the School of Engineering and Applied Physics, said, however. "Although we are not so unorthodox as some might believe, we are not going to return to the rigid engineering education of 50 years ago," he said...
Mixed Grill. Scorning the committee approach, Steiger designed everything down to the laundry truck for a recently completed, $20 million Zurich hospital. Every purchase order for the hospital, no matter how small, passed across his desk. When a surgeon objected to his unorthodox arrangement of the operating rooms, he said perhaps the doctor would be happier elsewhere. The doctor stayed, and eventually approved...
...raise our kids in bamboo huts and city flats," Franklin told the delegates from 70 countries. "We are high church and low church, orthodox and unorthodox . . . We are colored and colorless, Africans and Scandinavians . . . We speak a hundred languages...
...truth and that the ecumenical movement is "the literal incarnation of Satan." He advises against birth control because it cuts down on the church's membership, cautions against discussing the race problem or labor-management relations because they are too controversial. But he does have his unorthodox moments: "I have long held the opinion-privately, of course-that the Sermon on the Mount is the most im practical nonsense I have ever read...