Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Houston, who followed Valpey and received the biggest cheer of the evening, told the crowd, "It's great to be back in Cambridge. I think we'll do better if you'll stick...
After the observatory moved to better quarters, the house served as residence for a series of professors. One of the first was a minister named Huntington who outraged Unitarian Cambridge by turning Episcopalian. He finally resigned his post and went out west to be the bishop of Central New York. William James moved in 1880, but only for two years...
Burlingame, the first speaker, had maintained that there are "practical reasons" for what he termed the present "lapse" in American writing. He predicted that an approaching "synthesis of science with the humanities will help produce a literature that will better enable man to understand his position in an industrialized society...
...Vote, who was introduced by moderator Harry T. Levin '33 as "the village atheist of Cambridge, Massachusetts," emphasized the danger of "critical imperatives" by others than the writers themselves. But he found the general literary picture today-except in poetry, which he condemned for its "stuttering incomprehensibility"-rather better than ever before. "We are lucky," he concluded, "that the present writing is heterogeneous, and that our best writers will follow their own stars," despite the criticism of orthodox schools of writing
Here is what the Legislature did: An old New York statute prohibits teachers who advocate violent overthrow of the government. But since no court of law has yet decided that any particular group preaches revolution, the Legislature figured it had better write a decision of its own. So it passed a law ordering the Board of Regents to make up a list of "subversive" organizations, whose members could not teach in New York public schools...