Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club educators fear that "too intent a search for the all-round boy may well lead to the development of a Harvard type". The very word "type" is antithetical to all-rounded-ness, implying some degree of one-sided development...
...such an alarming predicament were it not for the sanity and perseverance of the business department of this paper. With Premier Haldwin as their guide and sana means in corpore sano as their motto they are standing, bloody but unbowed before the rushing legions of adversity. So none need fear any revolution in Cambridge. Plus as change--as Talley-rand might comment--plus c'est la meme chose...
...fear lest subdivision at Harvard, if carried far enough to break the present rhythm of student life, would produce American small-college standardization. We should have college traditions legislated into being, disciplinary measures against freaks, an intensive rah-rah spirit. I am sure the thousands of Harvard graduates feel with me that liberty to make our own friends, do what we like, eat where we liked, and wear what we liked, was the most precious aspect of our College life...
...said, this strike is not a spasmodic affair; it is one of the most significant events of the last five years in the history of the country. At the beginning, the old time Unions kept off, largely because of the fear of Communism, but lately they have become more favorable. Of course, the most important reason for this better feeling is the example and attitude of the strikers themselves. Beside this, Weisbord, of whom the Unions were most suspicious, has said that he will retire from the leadership if his personality is objectionable to them...
...very near perfection unfortunately possessed a birth-mark of position and prominence sufficient to cause her infinite torture. And so the lady had the birthmark removed. But--and the moral of the story lingers here--being thus made perfect, the lady departed into thin air. Harvard certainly need not fear any such immediate dissipation...