Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticipatory of "The Seven-Year Itch," but as a nineteen-year-old college student, single and realistic. I have always considered myself nowise naive of the ways of the world, yet cannot help feeling distressed at this off-hand nourishment given to seeds of infidelity which might otherwise remain dormant. It is all too easy to slip into a pattern of behaviour which, though inherently wrong, has been condoned by "THE modern thinkers." Whether or not the statistics are true, I do not believe that they should be gleefully flouted about as if to say, "Guess what's happening...
...which was the basis of the Volunteer Department, formally recognized there in 1941. From Massachusetts General and a few other pioneer hospitals, the idea spread, particularly during the two World Wars, through almost all large city hospitals and many community and private institutions. The Phillips Brooks contingent lay virtually dormant until the start of the current term when Reiss, one of 30 Volunteers in 1954-55, decided to reorganize the program. Registration in September jumped form last lear's 30 to a total of 124. Probably one of the most efficient social services in the College, the General Hospitals Program...
...alone cannot explain the remarkably abrupt falling-off of the satires and parodies that were legion between the years 1910 and about 1930. It has been said that humor, or attempts at it, is the property of a particular sort of mind--a mind which is either frenetic or dormant enough to see the incongruity of situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires a divorcement of the subject from consequence. In this respect, it is not an idle assumption that "learning at the College level" took on new importance to the typical Harvard undergraduate...
...deeply regret this state of things. For without competition the game goes stale, and the ingenuity of youth lies dormant. This will inevitably lead to the decay of capitalism, individualism, religion, and even the very future of Western Civilization. Accordingly, we welcome any parody, or for that matter, any other sign of life from Princeton. If the Princetonians will show us some spirit, we will show them their flag...
...seemingly more surprising than the headlines which may at times greet the Yardling reader is the fact that the Yardling resurrected itself on March 25, 1951, after lying dormant for almost eleven years to the day since the first Yardling silently bowed out on March 27, 1940. Actually the freshman class, living united in the Yard, has a strong, if often dormant, class spirit, and frequently feels that it isn't being adequately covered in the CRIMSON. This attitude, coupled with the fact that the class of 1954 as freshmen included 189 former high school editors, led to the Yardling...