Word: interest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Juniors. We do not come together to discuss, but to read. We meet in a library of old books, shelved in chronological order. We browse. I aim for students to select what they read by ineans of an "internal bell" that rings whenever a word or phrase of interest comes within their field of Visine. Unity of thought in a man's education would flow out of the unity of personality, rather than a set of formalizable, self imposed rules...
...must sell bonds, and some authorities think that much more radical changes in the markets will be required if they are to raise the cash that they need. Sidney Homer and Economist Henry Wallich, among others, have seriously suggested that mortgage and bond issuers may have to pay variable interest rates tied to movements in consumer prices. Some experts also expect a swing from long to short-term financing. There are signs of that happening already. Executives of Hawaiian Electric Co., for example, last month wanted to-sell $18 million worth of 30-year bonds but, after consulting with underwriters...
Making It Worse. If widely adopted, these makeshift devices could be dangerous. The need to refinance mortgages or bonds every five years or so would create endless headaches for home buyers and builders of schools, roads and factories. Variable interest rates would amount to a recognition that lenders expect continued inflation. That in itself could explosively aggravate the nation's inflationary psychology, which is the basic problem. In the long run, the U.S. simply cannot have healthy long-term capital markets in the midst of inflation. The need to ensure a continued flow of long-term money into houses...
...system whose purpose and methods appall me. I had seen the opening: parlaying four years of an elitist deferment with an unreachably high birthdate number, which would carry me until my liability ended. Instead, a random grab at pile of capsules has permanently cemented the alliance between my self-interest and my most detached political beliefs. I think draft resistance would have remained my political position after it no longer had to be my personal position. As it is. I'm not given the chance to find...
...very personal interest in the Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition students he admitted," according to David Henry '41, assistant chairman of Admissions under Gunmere. This interest in students carried over into his retirement years, during which he served as curator of the Lowell Lecture Series and was a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, Milton and Thayer academies, Browne and Nichols and Moses Brown schools...