Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the very race it was Harvard's day. The Yardlings, hard-pressed by a steady and muscular Tech outfit, came into their element by the half-mile mark, beat the Engineers by a length and a half, and walked away with the best time of the regatta...
...exact definition of an adviser is equivocal, some idea of what constitutes one can be gained from the varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question...
...pamphleteer Charles J. Moos '38 and a colleague who preferred to remain anonymous created quite a show at the Sanders meeting yesterday when they appeared with Congressman Bernard to advertise a "second Boston Tea-Party." Dressed in Indian clothes they led a nondescript element of peace strikers and Radcliffites into Congress Street in Boston...
...issue of Harper's reports in "The Future of Higher Education," by President James Bryant Conant, Harvard College has adopted a new scholarship device, occasioned by its recognition of the "Jeffersonian" element in American education. That great statesman proposed "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue" towards an "intellectual aristocracy" serving the Republic. This, as President Conant rightly contends, was democratic to the point of being revolutionary...
...members to parody surrealism in particular and loony modernism in general-a "Faker Show" which owed much to the high spirits of versatile, 57-year-old Alexander Oscar Levy, onetime Society president. Parodies of surrealism are imperiled by an inevitable resemblance to surrealism itself. Buffalo objects with a triumphant element of wit included...