Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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stones to secret societies, Taft, Hotch-kiss, Exeter, and Andover all form powerful eliques on the Yale campus which persist there long after freshman year...
Most people still persist in dying around 70 or even earlier, the professor said, because of "premature senility." One of the important factors producing this condition, she said, is a process in which albuminous molecules in the human body "collide and merge, losing half their electrical charge, and become denser, thereby causing a lowering of the metabolism." Working with frogs, she found she could step up the sagging metabolism with injections of mild soda solution, while tadpoles placed in a similar solution developed more quickly than in pure water...
...require concentrators in the other two areas to take a G.E. course in their area. But the G.E. courses outside the student's area would still be essential. What we recommend, then, is this: The present program should be continued for a trial period, and if these tendencies persist, only two lower level G.E. courses, in the two areas outside the student's area, should be required. Robert Cole, Chairman General Education Committee, Harvard Student Council...
These contrasts also persist in his appearance. He is the most unmiddle-aged of men, having the gaunt features and detached air of an old man, mixed with the shyness and sudden malice of a child. It is as though a Marx brother had become an archbishop, or even more impressive, an archbishop had the gifts of a Marx brother...
...Proudly Impious. Hedley has a neat answer for Superstition No. 1: "that the content and emphasis of religious thought undergo no change." Says Dr. Hedley, who believes man's knowledge of God can expand as much as his knowledge of science: "The proudly impious yet persist in judging all religion by their own childhood memories . . . Perhaps it is well that [they] did not meet Albert Einstein until they got into Upper Division courses, John Dewey until they entered Teachers' College; or, on as good grounds as they can show for religion, they might have declared physics and philosophy...