Word: vigorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred years, perhaps longer, that Harvard is a tremendously rich university is not so much an inaccurate commentary on Harvard as it is an unmistakable indication of how seriously and consistently the American public has underestimated the proper cost of higher education. President Eliot made this point with characteristic vigor. As early as 1890 he stated bluntly, "The American public must enlarge its ideas of the cost of supporting a university...
...would make the same statement with even more vigor today, for in our generation the difficulties of financing higher education have increased substantially. Twenty-five years ago income from that part of Harvard's endowment fund which belongs to the College met 47 per cent of the cost of operating the College. Last year this income met less than 27 per cent of these costs. Though the amount of endowment has considerably increased and the income from it has doubled in twenty-five years, the significant fact is that during this period the costs of operating the College have quadrupled...
...editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...
...anotherness that carries a conviction of reality. The actors, for example, are amazingly well behaved. Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, neither of whom has been widely hailed as an outstanding acting talent, keep thoroughly in character throughout long and difficult roles. In a shorter part, Mercedes McCambridge plays with vigor, economy and taste...
...example of Ike's liberal attitude is his stand on aid for education. But it is also an example of his lack of vigor. When the crucial debates were taking place, the President was convalescing after his operation. He sent not one word to Congress during the debate. This proved a disastrous silence, if Ike is as earnest as he seems, his supporters are not: the bill was defeated by the decisive votes of a unified Republican bloc...