Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with bitter sarcasm, "has evidently escaped the editors . . . though it was the longest and one of the most important encyclicals ever issued by the Holy Father. . . . "Some newspapers of Rome published only a few lines. Others ignored the encyclical entirely. Only one gave it as much as half a column-and this when treating of the words of the Bishop of Rome...
...printed page. Superimposed was a caduceus (staff of Hermes) to represent the newsbearing function. Happily chosen was the motto: Tempns fuit est et erit (Time was, is, and will be). Shrewd readers will recognize that the motto is also a reference to the daily headpiece of the editorial column in which appear the words: "Times Past," "The Times," "Future...
...very faulty. Seniors were greeted a few days after their return last September with the sudden announcement that these examinations would be held at a time about a week earlier than was the case last year. The Juniors in History and Literature, as has been stated before in this column, will be obliged to take their Bible-Shakespeare examinations only ten days after the end of the mid-year period, at a time impractical both for its closeness to the year's hardest study session, and for its presence during the early days of the second half-year, when...
Curiously, the idea of an honor system at examinations hasn't occurred in the crusading form for some time. The panegyric in an adjacent column may stir the hearts of Harvard men to take noble resolves to abide by the code, but some how it appears that the situation is reversed by the analysis therein set forth. The honor code as elaborated for the youth of the land looks more juvenile than any system of moderate supervision...
...last year or so, the sport pages have, as have the undergraduates themselves, taken an increasingly sane attitude about college athletics. Grantland Rice's paragraphs, reprinted in an adjoining column and typical of this happy change, deserve consideration here at Harvard. Moreover, if all of Mr. Rice's facts are true, more than mere consideration is demanded...