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True Liberal Republicans must today be joining in the chorus of quiet tut tuts from the throats of harassed News editors of the past three years. Who have stood shoulder to shoulder with their brethren in Cambridge in the battle to enlighten their less progressive campusmates. John Steadman 1L ex-Chairman Yale Dally News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOW-WOW-WOW | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

...meanderings from the Baptist Church, through the Episcopal to Roman Catholicism, permit me to make this comment: I rejoice in the freedom of my particular denomination (Methodist) in that, in obedience to Our Lord's words, it refuses "binding pronouncements" on matters wherein our own intelligence should enlighten and lead; and therefore, I have no desire to flee from this freedom into any system of theological or intellectual bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...Miss Louisa had kept him hidden through all the long years of war, draft-boards, ration books and national registration could only be guessed at. Some neighbors gossiped that he was Rose's illegitimate son, hidden to avoid family scandal. Louisa herself could not enlighten them. She was carried off to a local hospital with a paralyzing cerebral hemorrhage. Nor could Henry. Scrubbed and trimmed, he was being cared for in a mental hospital only a mile or two away. He knew he had lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man at the Window | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Roger V. Pugh, Jr. '51, 11., a Social Relations major, submitted a thesis last spring entitled "The Drinking Habits of the Harvard Man" which should enlighten those who have speculated long and often on this subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thesis Uncovers Guzzling Habits of College, Finds 13.5 Percent of Students Big Boozers | 12/1/1951 | See Source »

...industry has a responsibility to its public, and how well the industry is assuming that responsibility by its emphasis on war pictures is a matter of dispute. The urge to satisfy public demand in terms of box office sales does not always mesh with the urge to improve and enlighten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/17/1951 | See Source »

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