Word: flourishings
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Killian paid tribute to Cambridge for "its benign influence on three such great institutions as Harvard, M.I.T. and Radcliffe, permitted to flourish here...
Meanwhile, there is the ever-present problem of finding nutrient soil in which the deb can flourish. The steady, promising young man of 30-mother's invariable choice for a son-in-law-seldom has time for the social round, so the deb for the most part must frolic with a younger, less stable type, whose main qualifications are strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe...
...Collegiate way of living" for their pupils and, drawing one thousand pounds from John Harvard's legacy, they built the "Old College." Modeled for beauty instead of endurance, the building began to totter twenty-five years later and was abandoned. The super-functional design of Grays, lacking the Victorian flourish of its period, indicates that its creators sacrificed beauty to avoid the fate of the "Old College...
...summer of '43 both Malone and Pottinger left for private publishing houses and Roger Scaife '97, a well-known director of Little, Brown and Co., came on as director. Then, in 1947, the present director, Thomas J. Wilson III, became director. And the Press has continued to flourish...
...complimentary" seats is a systematized as it has been, a football player might just as well be receiving a weekly salary. As commercial as free books or automobiles donated by alumni, such brokerage taints the supposed purity of Harvard football. Insofar as the University allows this practice to flourish, it is subverting the progress it has made along other lines to keep Harvard football an amateur sport...