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...night attack, Marshall came across two U.S. survivors arguing over what had happened. To find out who was right, Marshall called in the rest of the outfit and cross-examined each man. To his astonishment, he discovered "that every fact of the fight was procurable-that the fact lay dormant in the men's minds, waiting to be developed...
...closed. Two months later a group of 50 alumni sent an angry letter to the University, demanding that back pay be given to the scrubwomen to clear Harvard's name. The University replied that the women had been paid the full amount at all times, and the case lay dormant until the next fall. It was then resurrected by a group under Corliss Lamont '24, demanding the back pay. At that point the CRIMSON, wearying of the battle, remarked that "the University's policy has been at best a miserly, penny-pinching, and stupid one throughout." In December...
...newspapers did not look kindly on Billy ("As elaborately planned as bullfights," said the Daily Mirror of his rallies), one of the papers linked him with no less a preacher than Savonarola. Billy's sermon, said the Manila Times, "could well serve as a yeast to enliven the dormant spirituality of our nation . . . It is high time that our religious leaders turn to the task of making us better men and women. We need stirring sermons challenging us to good works as well as faith. We need a Catholic evangelist who will arouse us from our sloth of evil...
...difficulties of an Urban Renewal Program and the general decline of local conditions have highlighted a long-dormant problem for the University--its relationship to the national and local environment. Usually this problem is seen as a debate over left or right side parking in Cambridge or, on a slightly higher level, Harvard's responsibility for educating American youth...
...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...