Word: banes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their insistence that the cutback would only strengthen the system and would in no wise sacrifice the thorough familiarity with a particular field of concentration which has been the main prerequisite for a degree since the inception of the tutorial system. A return to the superficiality which was the bane of the free elective system is foreshadowed in the scaling down of requirements for both the regular and honors degree in exactly those departments where tutorial has been hardest hit. The English department now requires of its non-honors men only that they take a fair distribution of courses within...
...present trends in this country within our great sister communion, the Roman Catholic Church. The first is its increasing commitment to a Roman, as distinguished from the traditionally independent, policy of American Catholicism. Such a trend has inevitably produced in history the phenomenon called clericalism, which has been the bane of Latin lands and from which we in the United States have been providentially spared. Clericalism is the pursuit of power, especially political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for purposes of social domination...
...sometimes played a more effective role in governing the country than the cabinet officers. Many of these men have been forgotten. There was Thomas Hart Benton ("He had a giant conviction that he and the people were one. 'Nobody opposes Benton,' he would roar, pronouncing it 'Bane-ton,' 'but a few blackjack prairie lawyers; these are the only opponents of Benton. Benton and the people are one and the same, sir; synonymous terms, sir; synonymous terms...
Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
Mention of laundry, that bane of every WAVE's existence, brings to mind thoughts of a unique institution here at Briggs Hall, the Alcove. The Alcove is no secluded nook, as its name might imply, where one may while away spare moments in intimate conversation with a friend. It is, rather, the equivalent of the corner drugstore, the village post-office, or somebody's backyard. It is a quaint combination of laundry, shower-room, and telephone booth that none but a Navy mind could have dreamed up. Here of a sunny afternoon, any day after four o'clock, the following...