Word: manifested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his life to exterminating black rats in England on the ground that they were foreigners smuggled into the country by Hanoverian Protestants. The 1951 Festival of Britain even set aside a section of one pavilion to commemorate oddballs. Britain's contemporary eccentrics manifest more energy than originality, but Britons in the past month have found cause for hope...
There is general agreement, according to Dunlop, that the undergraduate program as part of a liberal arts program should not be a pre-professional training. Disagreement, however, becomes manifest quickly after that statement. Many members of the department, for instance, feel that the best concentrators, the potential future economists, should be allowed to take courses on the graduate level, and indeed should be encouraged to do so. In effect these students would be obtaining a pre-professional training, but the supporters of this proposal feel that this is the only way whereby the interest of the economics-oriented student...
...scholarship merely prevented the teaching of moral philosophy, but did not interfere with the learning of its aims, and if Harvard students did show a marked concern for ethical conduct, character, and duty, there would be no reason to discuss this subject. But these concerns do not in fact manifest themselves consistently either abstractly or in practice; and while they are often excluded because of a real conflict of desired values, their absence can also be ascribed to indolence and to a communal atmosphere which agrees to ignore them...
Hell on Earth. As a result, said Dr. Mowrer. "not only have we disavowed the connection between manifest misconduct and psychopathology, we have also very largely abandoned belief in right and wrong, virtue and sin.'' The idea that man can have the benefits of an orderly social life, without paying for it through restraints and sacrifices, said Dr. Mowrer, is "a subversive doctrine...
...centuries Harvard has connoted truth, scholarship, and culture. I find the connotation valid. Evidence of the institution's discovery of truth, and achievement of scholarship is so manifest in the history of the world that words are inept. I prefer, therefore, to use the allotted space in recounting an incident in the area of that somewhat nebulous realm called the culture of Harvard...