Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library including all save one of the volumes John Harvard had donated. Feeling partly responsible for the tragedy, the Commonwealth put forth funds to the sum of $23,000 for a new building, and Governor Francis Bernard himself designed it in traditional Georgian style. Thus in 1766 the College's fifth oldest edifice was erected...
...State returns to normalcy, need only be shown the number turned away from M.S.C. in the last ten years. Besides, there will be no return to the prewar educational flow in and out of colleges. Soon the veterans' kid brothers will be wanting to go to college, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the present time prepared to do away with its emergency measures, must meet its future responsibilities by expanding its retarded facilities for State education...
...understand that the movements of a man who, by his very existence in the world, puts common ground beneath the feet of diplomats and housewives, financiers and factory hands; laborites, liberals and tories; who commands the absolute loyalty of this island and makes possible the unity of the Commonwealth, are not to be dismissed, nor are those of his family, with ignorant frivolity by you or anyone else. They are much too important...
...myriads who may have attempted the ascent, Professor Toynbee distinguishes 26 civilizations. Of these there are only five active survivors: 1) Western civilization (Western Europe, the British Commonwealth, the U.S., Latin America); 2) Orthodox Christian civilization (Russia and the Orthodox sections of southeastern Europe); 3) Islamic civilization; 4) Hindu civilization; 5) Far Eastern civilization (China, Korea, Japan). Of these five, four show signs of imminent exhaustion, and the fifth, Western civilization, is breathing heavily...
Prefacing his remarks with this cogent query, one of Wellesley's finest last night launched into an extended commentary on statutory law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with special emphasis on rules relating to traffic control...