Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspect of Harvard College is perhaps more celebrated than its vaunted tradition of undergraduate freedom. Yet where once Harvard's sons would express their freedom by loosing cows in the chapel and rioting on Cambridge Common, Harvard's undergraduates today have more creative outlets for enthusiasm that lack none of their old vigor...
...undergraduate mind is the fact that the best-written articles by far are those on Houses, notably those on Adams, Dunster, and Eliot. Perhaps this is sheer accident; perhaps it is because the House is the most vital aspect of Harvard and the Yearbook people could not help but express this...
...influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that had Lorca's arrival in America merely coincided with his abandonment of the old forms, or even if his experience in New York had set him on a new and durable bent, he would not have returned so immediately and whole-heartedly...
...seniors debated the topic "Resolved: That no fetters should be put upon man's right to express freely his political beliefs." Scrivner, Gregory M. Harvey '59, and James L. Kincaid '58 will debate the negative or this topic against the Yale debaters at 8 p.m. in the Ames Court Room in Austin Hall...
Kubla Khan ruled his far-flung empire from Korea to Hungary, using a pony express of 200,000 horses to maintain rapid communication, from his palace in Peking (which Marco Polo described with its "walls covered with gold and silver") or his pleasure-domed summer palace, with its 16-square-mile enclosed park at Shangtu (the Xanadu of Coleridge's famed verses). But because the Mongol Khans decreed that the elite Confucian scholars -who, under the Sung Dynasty, had ranked just below royalty-should be reduced to a category one degree above beggars, few Chinese scholars showed...