Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding itself in opposition to a policy of the News, would feel obliged to use its financial power to "convince" the editorial staff. Freedom of the press flies out the window. There are already many instances of such conflicts between interests controlling the finances and interests controlling the editorial content of college newspapers. And the News in its last two compulsory years has no great record of independent thought; our paper has been noticeably unwilling to take firm stands in opposition to any Administration or Student Government measures...
...leave the hospital by the end of this week or the first of next week, he will apparently be in no condition to resume his duties in the English Department until next September. "Students now enrolled in Professor Spencer's English 23b and Humanities I will have to be content with substitutes," reported Bartlett J. Whiting '25, professor of English...
...Koestler. But, as readers of Conspirator will see, Slater does not share Koestler's determination to explore the more subtle and profound characteristics of the revolutionary man. Himself a former leftist enthusiast (he was the International Brigade's chief of operations in the Spanish war), Slater is content to dramatize his lore with such ability that few readers will be able to put down Conspirator before they have reached the last gasp...
...anachronisms in the Athletic Association's methods of awarding sports letters. A player in a major sport gets his major "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale opponents, while an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how brilliant his record, has to be content with a small letter. And if a man in any sport does not play in his Yale contest--for whatever reasons --he has to forego his letter...
Beyond the method of their consideration, the two changes adopted last week are commendable in their content. Both indicate a return from wartime paternalistic tendencies to the traditional independence and responsibility of the student in Harvard College...