Word: documented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time librarians announced that the periodical room and the adjoining document room would be reorganized during the summer so as to make space for all of the current periodicals. Some of the less frequently used volumes in the document room will be moved and "dead space" in the document stacks will be taken up, it was explained, so that even those current magazines which are now filed away in the stacks can be kept in the periodical room...
...newspapers have made a flurry over reports of a document circulated among you declaring distaste for ever serving in the armed forces of your country. What truth may be in these reports we do not know. As we remember such things, the press was always quick to attribute to Harvard responsibility for the antics of its least representative students. But since a respected member of the faculty has thought is worth while to comment upon the document, we take it that the matter of a citizen's responsibility in arms is being discussed among Harvard...
...assert that the duty of every citizen to bear arms in defense of his country is not open to discussion. But they agree that the country's policy is a fit subject for though and discussion by every citizen. It is this subject with which the petition deals. The document, signed by hundreds of Harvard students, is not an ironbound pacifist ukase. Behind it is the reasoned conviction that the way in which America drifted toward war in those years was unintelligent and unworthy of our nation. These are the footsteps we are determined to avoid...
Altogether the volume is an uncommonly interesting psychological document: touching, somehow admirable case history of an international vagabond, a semi-Dostoevskian, a naïve sophisticate and speculative researcher. It is also a huge chunk of undercured, surprisingly palatable ham. The author is nobody's fool, except perhaps (as he freely grants...
...brief document reiterated the stand taken by last year's Student Council, which recommended that five compulsory area courses be established to restore a liberal education to Harvard. The Council at that time maintained that because of over-concentration, inadequate distribution, and the deterioration of the tutorial system, a liberal education here was being seriously undermined...