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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote Machiavelli: "Taking everything into careful consideration, one will discover that an action which appears to be virtuous will lead to the ruin (of the prince) and another action which appears to be vicious will lead to his security and prosperity . . ." Louis HANEGRAEF Liège, Belgium

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Your attention is invited to the erroneous statement that the above-mentioned disease is known as "St. Anthony's fire." In any medical dictionary you will discover that erysipelas, not ergot poisoning, is referred to by the lay term of "St. Anthony's fire." A pox on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1951 | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

What, then, is Harvardmanship? Briefly, it is the Art of Overwhelming Friends and Stupefying People. Many of you, of course, have been practicing this art unconsciously, overwhelming a friend here or stupefying a roommate there, by instinct alone. And the history of amateur Harvardmanship goes back many centuries to a...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Expert Harvardman Overwhelms Classmates With Policy of Studymanship, Sexmanship | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

When I go about my occupation of drawing comparisons, I become aware that those who live in troubled weather build or discover resources that we in 1920 felt no need to call upon. Like species among the order of the animal kingdom, they developed adaptations. These resources, of course, are...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

When I go about my occupation of drawing comparisons, I become aware that those who live in troubled weather build or discover resources that we in 1920 felt no need to call upon. Like species among the order of the animal kingdom, they developed adaptations. These resources, of course, are...

Author: By Thornton Wilder, | Title: Top Commencement Week | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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