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A Senator is expected to devote long hours to seeking the long view, yet to be on call whenever a constituent wants a guide to show him about Washington. If he strictly supports his party leaders, he is called a hack; if he defies them, he is called an obstructionist...
"I believe the time is ripe for physicists, and scientists in general, to devote a much larger fraction of their time to research of military interest . . ." At present, Dr. Seitz says, there is not much opportunity or encouragement for such high-type recruits. Government money is not lacking, but Government...
And yet, "house spirit" blazes heartily at Leverett. There is an amazing sense of solidarity and drive among those who play on House teams, arrange the House forums and concentration dinners, and devote hours of precious study time to such projects as painting and decorating the television room or equipping...
Miss Mead also emphasized that if teachers devote all their time to one age group they may distort their view of modern youth and develop unchanging stereotypes of their students.
The report conceded the need for improvement in advising but it added that many statements which appeared were "lacking in generosity" to men "who devote long hours at considerable personal sacrifice to conferences with individual students."