Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement is a welcome one, especially in contrast to his action in the New Student case last spring. At that time, the Dean's Office refused to grant recognition as a Harvard publication to the left-wing magazine principally on the grounds that a high percentage of its contents was written by non-Harvard authors. Yet literary magazines have often printed issues written entirely outside Harvard without protest from University Hall. Thus the political content of The New Student seemed to be the key factor in determining University Hall's stand against the magazine...
...Wreath of Roses is her fourth, and it has the same lightness and speed, the same clairvoyance at catching ripples of feminine feeling, as her first, At Mrs. Lippincote's. Since there is nothing very busty or blustery about all this, Mrs. Taylor will probably have to be content with a lot fewer readers than she deserves...
...Yale, basketball used to be considered something better left to Y.M.C.A.s and volunteer fire departments. Until 1937, when Yale changed its mind, basketball lettermen had to be content with a two-inch minor-sport "Y" instead of five-inchers given to crewmen, footballers, baseballers and trackmen. Even after basketball became a major sport, Yalemen refused to get worked up about the game -until Tony Lavelli of Somerville, Mass, came along...
...students in the course. I am responsible for the slogan, "The unforgivable theme is the theme without a subject." It is perfectly true that we usually begin the year with one or more assignments asking the student to write about his personal experience. This is one source of content for any writer, and in my judgment, a course in English composition is not doing its job if it does not lay on the student the duty of some self-scrutiny. If the student meets this opportunity by writing inconsequential papers typified by your imaginary subject, "What I Did This Summer...
Professor Hocking declared that "no man is content without a touch of the unknown. The only man who is happy is one who knows how much he doesn't know...