Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know also what obligation and duty their sacrifices imposed on us. They did not die to make the world safe ... for five years or maybe ten or maybe twenty. They died to make it safe. And if, by some fault of ours who lived beyond the war, its safety has again been threatened, then the obligation and the duty are ours. It is in our charge now ... to see to it that 'these dead shall not have died in vain...
However, we do not feel that publications should be considered as "official" in any sense of the term. The author, the board of editors, and the editor-in-chief should be responsible for what goes in each article, not the entire student body. All three were at fault for failing to see the potential dynamite that lurked in the seeming innocence of the words. When the dynamite exploded it was up to them to make amends as best they could. We suspect that the apologies which they rendered, honestly and sincerely, must have helped the situation more than any action...
Cried Margarita: "You are his donna, and I am his donna; your husband is a cuckold, and mine is another. ... If he prefers what is mine to what is yours, is it my fault...
...Woodworth visit brought nothing but trouble to Harvard and to the Lampoon. It wasn't her fault. She did what she was told. Kambers dragged her everywhere, condescending to allow her to attend the dance for all of fifteen minutes, just time for the newsreel cameras, undoubtedly run by her home studio, to whirr. As a crowning disgrace. Kambers and the Boston newshounds got her to pause for a luscious bit of cheesecake in the lap of the John Harvard statue. When Marjorie departed from Boston the morning after, the Lampoon knew it was through with Hollywood. The visit hurt...
...handful of Seniors are on the docket to be drafted between mid-years and Commencement Day. These men are all good scholars, and would ordinarily take their General Examinations in May and get their degrees with the rest of the Class of '42. But, through no fault of their own, they will be forced to go from college into the army, navy, air corps or marines without the magical sheepskin, unless the Faculty votes today in favor of allowing them to take their Generals at mid-years...