Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council Belief Committee have jointly organized the campaign in order to collect books, magazines, student supplies, and all kinds of clothing in response to the recent plan of Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '49, administrative director of the Harvard Rest Room to Salzburg, Austria. Food collections are not included in the projected local campaign...
...Auden, an intellectual acrobat and a verbal magician, turned out 1947's most discussed book of verse: The Age of Anxiety. This modern eclogue described a chance meeting of four paper-thin characters in a Third Avenue bar; its moral was ex-radical Auden's glowing belief that worldly goods must be rejected. The verse itself was dexterous, bright but self-indulgent...
...contrast to the South's convictions, Mid-Westerners consider all Harvard men rock-ribbed reactionaries. Tied in with this political conception is the belief that the average Cambridge Scholar is the epitome of the social snob. One student from Indian discovered he had not been invited to several parties at the state university simply because beer was to be the beverage of the day. Harvard men, the local boys felt, would quaff nothing but the more expensive and refined scotch...
...forgets, and writing compositions on subjects in which he has no interest nor any information." English teachers were kidding themselves if they thought "that a child cares whether he speaks correctly . . . until he feels the social pressure of his own group." Another fallacy, said Dr. Leonard, was the common belief "that a boy or girl can learn to express himself correctly, clearly and effectively by taking regular courses in English composition in school." The University of Minnesota's Dora V. Smith agreed. Said she: "The type of writing most used today is the personal letter. Young people...
...only some power could take from us our smugness, self-satisfaction, our naive belief that now as a race we really have arrived somewhere; if we could face our barbarism honestly we might eventually do something about...