Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a special prayer read by the dean of St. Paul's, organ and choir burst into Churchill's favorite American anthem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was sung at his express command and in homage to the honorary U.S. citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church...
...Confy Guide type of student evaluation, compiled from student polls, is suggested by Fischer as a way to express student opinion about their teachers. Students, he says have proved in the Confy Guide and in similar publications at other colleges that they can be fair minded, discriminating judges of professorial ability...
...would like to express to you the dismay which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...
Finally, and most importantly, student government must provide a channel through which students can express their grievances. For instance, about the ice cream. It doesn't tell you anything in "Studies in the Freshman year" about the ice cream; all it says is "general education ... is used to indicate that part of a student's whole education which looks first of all to his life as a responsible human being and citizen...
...well as offering this intimate description of life at Harvard, Gent feels obliged to express its moral outrage...