Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British university standards, many "could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...
...someone who wanted it. And if a student needed a book that he couldn't afford, Phillips often slyly lowered the price. Once in a while, the philosopher merchant would quote a ridiculously low price on a book he was interested in just to entice a customer to read...
...Your reporter's incompetency was first brought to light by the story announcing the forum, in which the CRIMSON said: "The book sets forth the author's (Schlesinger, Jr.'s) theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and modern conservative opinions." Your man obviously hasn't read the book, or does not comprehend it and has been misled by the title. Mr. Schlesinger, Jr. is a radical democrat and said so at the forum; he is a member of the non-Communist Left, not a Doughface progressive. Your story also said that Mr. Hughes would "discuss Schlesinger...
...Didn't Read Carefully...
...didn't read the letter carefully," Beveridge said. "We thought it meant Harvard was supporting the Fund this year." Actually, the letter was just to thank the College for its contribution last fall, and to ask for support again this year...