Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advising is an important part of the educational process, essential if the student is to obtain maximum benefit from his college experience. Harvard has, in the last sixty years, clearly committed itself to this proposition . . . (But) advising, in a college which emphasizes independence, maturity and self-education, will not be paternalistic...
When the fevered radio advertisers of the 1930s tried to discover just how much dough could be squeezed out of Junior-a process approached in much the same spirit as that with which the Texas Rangers squeezed information out of Mexican bandits-it seemed improbable that the growing nervous system could stand much more stimulation, or that the tender, childish gullet could gulp down more bread, breakfast food, candy or soft drinks...
...machines, said Gulick, will allow them to replace 78.4% of the men in factories employing more than 100, and 16.5% of the white-collar help. In ten years, he estimated, some 7,500,000 workers will be replaced by the intelligent machines. A national emergency could speed up the process greatly. Both management and government, said Gulick, will have to look sharp, lest a too-quick development of this sort leave a large part of the U.S. population without support or function...
...judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...
Holcombe now gives Government 103, Principles of Popular Government, Government 130, the National Government of the United States, and Government 230, a seminar on the Legislative Process...