Word: elements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other questions in the poll ask if undergraduates consider the annuals a unifying element and if the books have been useful...
...first time ("When I was a boy I was a coward, and bitterly ashamed of it") and passionately demand respect-not only for himself but for his more humble schoolfellows. Humiliation made him a living example of his thesis that "the professional, penniless younger son classes are the revolutionary element in society: the proletariat is the conservative...
Tomorrow, NSA will be holding a meeting of prospective candidates for the position of delegates (5) and alternates (3) on the Harvard NSA delegation. It would be well for the political element of the College to turn out in multitudes to try for these posts. A good delegation, unlike this year's which almost broke up after its summer trip to the convention in Wisconsin, would do NSA and the College a noble turn...
...linking horses and bishops. "No culture," he argues, "can appear or develop except in relation to a religion"; nor can any religion survive without the "maintenance of culture." And yet, religion and culture are not identical. A close observer can see both the bond that unites them and the element that separates them in, for instance, the writings of such men as Voltaire and Nietzsche-who contribute to culture by assaulting, and thus recognizing, the presence of the religion that makes their culture cohere...
Culture, Eliot holds, can be passed on by men primarily through their children, because only through the family can people grasp another important element of culture-"Piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote." So, in Eliot's opinion, if an "elite" does not become a rooted upper class, it cannot have any real cultural value; to enemies of aristocracy Eliot says that though in a class system many aristocrats fail to live up to their ancestors' high calling, a precious handful may be relied upon to fulfill the obligations of their...