Word: credo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most impressive among the projects now underway is a mural being painted on the wall behind the main stairway in Bunt Hall by John A. Holabird Jr. '42, following the theme that man must retain his individuality despite modern machinery and industrialization. The mural expresses, in effect, the fundamental credo of the course...
From 660 B.C. to 1940 A.D., according to the Japanese credo, the sons of Jimmu Tennō ruled and begat, with the aid of Shoguns, concubines and kinfolks. Down through the years Imperial legends unfolded into a religion and Imperial symbols became as hush-hush as primitive taboos-the divine sword, the jewel, the mirror. The Emperors took the 16-petaled chrysanthemum as a sort of sacred trademark. Modern Japanese are skeptical, sometimes even resentful, of these legends and taboos, but even the best educated observe the outward forms...
With the note of belligerency becoming ever more dominant in its policy, the Harvard Student Defense League added a resolution recognizing the possibility of sending troops out of the hemisphere to its credo and elected Wingate Green '41 its permanent President in a meeting last night...
...resolution was adopted with only two dissenting votes after a lively discussion concerning foreign policy. An amendment favoring full aid to Britain and economic sanctions against Japan was deferred as not necessary to the credo although general support for it was voiced...
...pointing out that it would take two billion tons of shipping to even send an army of 200,000, a proposition quite beyond consideration for us at present. He urged that we should build an adequate defense, and stop shipping our implements of war--the direct antithesis of the credo of the League...