Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sultry August day nine months ago the United States Senate was swept forward by the floodtide of international optimism to vote unqualified approval of the United Nations Charter. An Administration still vibrant with the ideals of its late President had concentrated every form of pressure and political maneuvering to coerce all but the most recalcitrant of the Senators into hearty consent. Having thus hurdled the bulwark of traditional American isolationism, international planners peered with sparkling eyes into a future of unthrobbing war drums and furled battle flags. A people eager to believe took no stock in the gloomy fore-bodings...
Doug Pirnie, Pete Harwood, Bill Fisher, and John Holbrook are suffering from various injuries and illnesses, Frank Coolidge is on probation, Jack Fisher and Bill Jackson are busy with spring football practice, and cold weather has interfered with their training, but Mikkola looks forward to good results this spring, basing his optimism on the fact that he "hasn't often seen a Harvard team that would practice as hard as this year...
Commenting editorially on the President's report, the Harvard Alumni Bulletin said: "President Conant hoped that the faculty, looking forward to receiving returning service men, would be guided in their counsels by a 'determination to be flexible.' It is now clear that this hope has been realized. Flexibility in admission policies in selecting men who show the greatest educational promise, rather than those who most nearly satisfy pre-war conditions of academic credit. Flexibility in granting academic credit for various types of study completed by candidates while serving in the armed forces. Flexibility in the three-term...
...backfield, however, lacks the playing experience of the forward wall. '43 captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell is expected to re-enter College in June, and will probably share the wingback duties with Leo Flynn next fall. These two, however, are the only pre-war veterans who will be available...
...last CRIMSON carried on its mast head 29 editors who has been more or less active while the present one bears the names of 25 all of whom can look forward to comparatively unfettered futures