Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leadership at Cornell, Oberlin, Chicago, Williams and other leading colleges, there is no reason why Harvard need fear smoke-filled rooms and Tammany-style politics. Fraternity blocs, the plague of many student governments elsewhere, could not achieve control on the local scene, where but one-fifth of the electorate belong to social clubs, and where the very nature of the organizations would preclude any concerted political activity...
...Solons obviously do not dare let OPA die completely; rent controls, for example, are not so much as touched in either House or Senate bill. The time for haggling is growing short, and a ringing Presidential veto message will throw the blame and the responsibility exactly where they belong-in the spacious laps of a captious Congress...
...things that belong to their peace...
...least one segment of the University has frankly admitted that co-education, no matter how it is talked about, does not and should not belong here. Memorial Church divines have decreed that the Choir, whose all-male history survived as long as Radcliffe was kept on the other side of Garden Street, shall return to its pre-war status by next fall. Two possible reasons for the decision offer themselves. First, a chorus of men's voices is more musically suitable to religious services. Second, a University which proclaims itself a male institution could not both sponsor a mixed choir...
...imperious girl ("Do all these people belong to me?"), she was also slim, proud, and pretty. The French dramatist Edmond Rostand called her "The little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips...