Word: clasticity
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Thus, over the years, the Law School has remained clastic. But a mind-boggling array of serious problems must be confronted in the years immediately ahead. These problems transcend the tasks of Faculty recruitment and fund-raising. They are matters of educational policy, and law students at Harvard are vitally concerned about them. To a great extent, the next Dean will be responsible for their disposition...
Taking Harvard as an example, we do not feel that membership in the Communist party per se is either "grave misconduct" or "neglect of duty," even though these 17th century terms of the University statutes are eminently clastic. But recruiting for the CP and similar actions are, because they abuse a teacher's classroom prestige in order to train students for potentially illegal acts...
Harvard is for Bliss Perry the "Cockpit of Learning." Up to the time of his appointment there had never been a chair of "English Literature", as he explains, "the term 'English' being considered clastic enough to cover both linguistic and literature courses. As "the successor of Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell" Bliss Perry recalls an uncomfortable feeling that the public was getting the impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard...
June, 1895. Loessy winds puffed faintly from the gulf, and doxies paltered in their bordels. All Nebraska simmered in the heat. Lincoln, the new state capital, named for Mr. Lincoln out of spite by an unruly clique of power-drunk prairie politicians, sulked in the hotness--oppressed by the clastic ulor of its buildings...
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