Word: formula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like most of my colleagues, recognize that the times have changes and that the old ROTC formula no longer suits the temper of the contemporary university. I for one do not wish to bar the participation of educated young men from this or other universities in the military services. Nor do I wish to diminish the role the military services have played historically in assuring our security and freedom. That is not the purpose of the resolution voted by the Faculty last Thursday. For my part, and here I can speak only, as one member of this Faculty. I would...
Happily, there is an antidote for student violence. It is intellectual fulfillment ?the discovery of fascinating knowledge under the guidance of a teacher one truly admires. Such was the formula at England's 14th century colleges, the seeds of Oxford and Cambridge, where a mere dozen students lived and learned together with a single master. In the early 20th century, U.S. colleges forestalled violence by offering elective courses and extravagant athletics. The consequent peace was enforced by colleges' acting in loco parentis and the growing national canon that education was salvation. Only a few years ago, U.S. collegians were...
...three dissenters described the new rule as unrealistically rigid. "Strait indeed is the path of the righteous legislator," wrote Justice John Harlan wryly. "Slide rule in hand, he must avoid all thought of county lines, local traditions, politics, history and economics, so as to achieve the magic formula: one man, one vote." Justice Abe Fortas tended to agree, but he nonetheless concurred in these cases because neither state had made a sufficient "good-faith effort...
Last week, at a surprise press conference held after the stock exchanges had closed for the weekend, the Nixon Administration deftly solved the quandary. First, the White House conceded that a study of the Johnson decision had turned up "no evidence of impropriety." On scrupulously economic grounds, the Nixon formula nevertheless sharply pared Johnson's largesse and excised entirely those awards that had fed the cries of cronyism...
...million fortune† in land speculation during the late 19th century, once remarked: "Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way and the safest way but the only way to become wealthy." For decades, major U.S. industrial and financial corporations ignored the Field formula, leaving the business of real estate largely to its own local operatives. Now the trend is running the other way. So many huge companies have been expanding into real estate and building that the nation's largest industry, construction, is undergoing a remarkable change...