Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...like the mailmen, the Crimson skippers reportedly will sail despite most of the forces of chaos. "The only thing that will stop us is wind over 35 knots," said Carter Ford...
...stopping you.' That's the attitude we'd like the parents of our kids to take. We'd like them to say 'Don't worry about it, son, we'll get yourself through somehow. And if we can't, well then you'll get yourself through somehow. The important thing is to study hard now.' But if the parents don't teach a kid this, then it's up to us to teach...
...first problem is to give these kids a worthwhile self-image of themselves. We want to make them feel that they have what it takes to go to college and be want they want to be. There are several devices we use to accomplish this. For one thing we use what we call 'hero and heroine worship': if someone from the school got into a good college or became a doctor or a lawyer, we tell the kids about it and put his picture in the classroom. Then the kids can say 'see, somebody from our school made...
...striking fact to be observed is that in such a movement, no matter how frivolous, is expressed the bitterly callous attitude of our generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming of the future war will deprive the most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth...
Censorship in all forms is naturally an odious thing, but in this case the presumptuousness of an American President who wants to keep his life his own is absolutely inexcusable...