Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refuting the views of former President Conant, Griswold agreed with the principle of universal military training but asserted that "despite the approach of manhood, boys of eighteen are not men." Conant has always been a staunch advocate of "a universal military service law requiring every able-bodied young man to enter the armed forces at eighteen or on graduation from high school...
...fanatic for bells, nearly dropped his copy of De Tintinnabulis when Charles Crane offered to supply Harvard with one genuine set of Russian church bells. The two men measured Lowell House tower, and discovered that there would be just enough room for twenty-seven tone worth, cast in eighteen different sizes and shapes. On October 10, 1930 the bells arrived in Cambridge. The work of Mr. Crane, who had gone to some little trouble importing them from Leningrad, seemed near completion...
...early eighteen hundreds, College officials tried to salvage the Chapel. They divided it into two stories, put in skylights and enlarged the windows, but for the next fifty years, Holden rated nothing better than the smells of science. At one time it held the Medical School, the physics department and a chemistry laboratory, each science department adding its characteristic flavor. During one Chemistry lecture, "a mass of disagreeable smoke filled the building and the class threw themselves out of the windows." The Medical School specialized in corpses, and visitors to the College were always impressed by the rather gory displays...
Leverett, Dunster, Eliot, and Kirkland were represented in the evening matches, along with Adams and Lowell. Eighteen men represented the six Houses...
...little item called "There's a Time for Flags, or (Notes of a man who bought a curious Christmas gift)." The Thurber Diaries are like none other: "Dec. 15--Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock I bought an American flag, five feet by three, and a white flagpole, eighteen feet high, surmounted by a bright golden ball, and now I am trying to figure out why." Mr. Thurber never does, but no one really cares...