Word: argument
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parietal hours has, over the years, been chipped away, undergraduates have become, not less, but more responsible. Of course, Masters are, by their nature, a reticent lot, holding back where possible, conserving a tradition in the face of criticism; but it seems blatantly unfair to assume that if an argument for the responsibility of Harvard students has to be made it must necessarily come from the undergraduates themselves. Surely the Administration does not have to await a show of militancy before it acts for the benefit of the student body...
...arouse widespread student protest, Kennedy hopes to weaken a key argument of those who oppose his bill. As Senator Richard Russell said in debate last summer, "I have not received a single complaint from a young citizen of my state who feels he is insulted by being asked to say he believes in the Constitution of the United States...
...this hope has at least temporarily vanished, strategy has had to be changed. Obviously, the University, as well as other schools and academic associations should support new legislation that attempts to remove the oath. Last year, Harvard's ambivalent attitude was cited in Congress as a part of an argument that the loyalty oath was acceptable to even the best schools; but clear support of measures to remove the oath, coupled with a firm refusal to accept funds so long as it is required, should make Harvard's stand serve as an argument against the oath...
...secret. His sales strategy was to outflank corporate channels, sell the small car directly to G.M.'s hard-reigning president, Harlow Curtice. But sharp, inquiring "Red" Curtice was a tough man to sell. To do it, Cole would have to present him with a prototype car and an argument virtually without flaw-at a carefully selected time when the market was just beginning to ripen. Cole well knew that Curtice could ask him hundreds of questions-and if he did not have all the answers, Curtice would veto the idea right there...
Stocky (5 ft. 6 in.), with a simian gait, a large, handsome head and a loud, clear voice that was usually raised in argument, Orde Wingate saw himself eternally at war with "the tyranny of the dull mind," i.e., nine-tenths of his immediate military superiors and nearly all army regulations. When he was passed over for an appointment to the Staff College, Wingate strode to a Yorkshire hilltop where General Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking...