Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions were not designed to solicit information, but to embarrass the Ambassador personally. Granted that our society is radically different from the Soviet Union, the question period should not have been used to demonstrate this difference, but to understand it, and possibly to explore interests held in common by the two societies. The fact that some of the questions were asked merely with intent of confirming previously held opinions and prejudices, not only illustrates bad manners, but is indicative of the fact that a few American students have lost sight of a value on which our democracy and particularly this...
This casting procedure is an effort "to broaden the base" of Eliot House dramatics and train actors for the group's regular productions according to Hancock. The readings, to be held in the Junior Common Room, are the main feature of a three-part program of activities outlined this week by the recently reorganized Drama Group...
...silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...
...memory of a genial House superintendent humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory of leather magazine covers, tattered around the edges by the leisurely passing of time in the House common room. It is the memory of the indecisive rap on the oaken door and the diffident request to please modulate the sound on the record player. But perhaps paramount in my catalogue of memories is the greatest of these familiar symbols of fellowship--fellowship itself...
...addition to this, the managers are bound together in the recently rejuvenated Undergraduate Managers' Council. This group meets monthly to discuss common problems of managing and also to make any recommendations about athletics in general to the Undergraduate Athletic Council...