Word: wholely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the crowd was composed of students; most of them were cheerfully hostile to the Attorney-General. The subject of the debate was a bill he was sponsoring, which if passed, would have had far-reaching effects upon the University and the whole educational system of the Commonwealth...
...committee as a whole then voted eight, to three that both Phillips and Butterworth be retained. President Allen, in his report to the Regents, recommended that they overrule the majority report of the faculty committee. He regarded the same evidence that it did and still reversed its decision, thereby denying the committee its deliberative function and reducing it to a fact-collecting body...
Over $600 has already been collected for the fund. The interest on the whole amount $400 per annum will be used to defray operating expenses, for which the debaters have been hard-pressed this year. Most of the funds for the present season came from gifts, forcing the club to work on a shoe-string basis...
Although committee reports do not tell the whole story about a man's interest in his work as a Council member, they do point up the peculiar opportunity which an elected Council member has for doing something useful. Last year, for example, under the leadership of David C. Poskanzer '50, the Council's Education Committee turned out a report which required keen interest and active leadership. By comparison, this year's Education Committee has done little. Its outstanding project is the publication at this late date of the results of polls on General Education courses and a report on section...
...England and the U.S.--not at Harvard, he remarks diplomatically--of university professors to doubt the worth of their academic pursuits. "Outside always suspects Ivory Tower, but insiders now think asking questions too persistently is form of maladjustment. Research, secret joy, but go to Washington to justify it. Whole concept of university breaks down. Used to think disciplines just different ways of asking same question. Now want answers, not truth...