Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been voiced by most of the city councilors. Even Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 stated Monday, "I think Harvard has gone a little too far this time." Councilors Hayes and Walter Sullivan recalled Harvard's opposition to the building on stilts which Cambridge developer John Briston Sullivan tried to erect over the small Cambridge Common, only one block from the castle site...
Only Memorial Hall surpasses the standard garishness of Victorian taste. Guides on one of the sight-seeing tours now conducted through Cambridge claim that Harvard wanted so much to erect a great and lasting tribute to its Civil War dead that University officials asked every leading architect in America to contribute one detail to such a monument, put them all together and erected Memorial Hall...
...named square," he wrote, "after but one of an infinite number of retinal sensations which it yields, the rest of them being sensations of two acute and two obtuse angles; but I call the latter perspective views, and the four right angles the true form of the table, and erect the attribute squareness into the table's essence, for aesthetic reasons of my own." James claimed that every object is represented in some standard attitude, at some particular distance, of some typical size, and so forth. Yet each of these characteristics, which together constitute the "objectivity" of the object...
...virtue of passing resolutions at the Congress is that it gives students a reason for being concerned. If past student apathy is any guide, NSA is correct in believing that more than the rhetoric of democratic responsibility is needed to get through the wall of disinterest most American students erect around themselves...
Most British colonial governors ultimately reach the point where they stand by, erect and proud, as the Union Jack flutters down over some distant possession and the flag of independence is run up. As the new session of Parliament began in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, last week, the pattern of noble withdrawal was broken by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of the nearly extinct Central African Federation. Required by tradition to read the speech drafted by the local white government, Lord Dalhousie, resplendent in a plumed cocked hat and silver epaulets, delivered a sharp rebuke to Britain because it "has betrayed...