Word: barre
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country and Germany. Only in this constitutional manner can the energies be massed which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of a program of defense." Signers were not fire-eaters: there was Columnist Frank Kent, Editor George Fort Milton, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr. What seemed like the biggest reversal was Walter Millis'. But Mr. Millis, author of the best-selling Road to War that traced the steps to U. S. entry into World War I, had already implied that this war is not like the last...
...Harvard graduates in the new committee include: Edwin C. Bennett '18, W. De Ford Bigelow '00, George H. Blakeslee '02, Charles C. Cabot '22, Henry B. Cabot, Jr. '17, Philip Cabot '94, Waltr B. Cannon '96, A. Barr Comstock '07, Lawrence Coolidge '27, William A. Coolidge '24, Courtenay Croocker '01, Charles K. Cummings '93, Lawrence B. Cummings '02, Robert H. Davison...
...Barr Comstock will again stroke the combination crew, made up of oarsmen from the third Varsity and second Freshman eights, which takes to the water June 20 at New London in an effort to repeat last year's win over the Elis...
Graduation of Jack Barr and Henry Thompson leaves two big vacancies to be filled by Sophomores and Varsity squad holdovers of a year...
Here is President Stringfellow Barr's statement of what the St. John's graduate should be; "He will be able to think clearly and imaginatively, to read even difficult material with understanding and delight, to write well and to the purpose. For four years he will have consorted with great minds and shared their problems with growing understanding. He will be able to distinguish sharply between what he knows and what is merely his opinion. From his constant association with the first-rate, he will have acquired a distaste for the intellectually cheap and tawdry; but he will have learned...