Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company is an economic dependency of Harvard just like all the other business in the Square. Any boycott by the faculty and students is a blow to the company and an aid to the drivers in the fight for a living wage...
...Lord, we thank Thee for the battleships and bombs, the airplanes and the poison gas. We thank Thee that Thou didst say: Suffer little children to come unto me that I might drop bombs upon them and blow them into Kingdom Come. We thank Thee that Thou didst die upon the Cross, not with a crown of thorns on Thy head, but with a gas mask on Thy face and a soldier's boots upon Thy feet...
...driving force behind all measures to grant the Negro full citizenship, to hold the South in military bondage. When Johnson opposed him with Lincoln's moderate policies, Stevens organized his impeachment, marshalled the Republican radicals, browbeat the wavering, traded and intrigued. Failure to impeach Johnson was a severe blow to the aging, implacable Stevens. Shortly afterwards he died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles...
...proposal to abolish all minor and junior varsity sports came as a severe shock. Having worked hard to become sufficiently proficient in a minor or junior varsity sport to represent the fair name of Harvard, and then to find this sport abolished over night is more than a blow. Placed on a House basis, such sports as Cross Country, Lacrosse, Fencing, 150 lb. Crew, Rugby, and Soccer would greatly decrease in proficiency...
...house-cleaning. Responsibility for the tutoring racket in its worst form lies jointly with the vicious mal-practices of the schools themselves, with the indolent students who use them, and with faults in the academic curriculum: worthless teaching or chaotic course organization. Elimination of the last means a body blow to the tutoring evil. Within a few days the Crimson will submit to President Conant a list of courses which have been indicated in its poll as possessed of glaring faults. There should be speedy investigation and remedy of these evils...