Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bathed in a nostalgic aura all its own, rowing on the Charles represents to the world outside Cambridge a contrast to legendary Harvard indifference. While current sports-writers rhapsodize over Gannons and Mariaschins, the College's "old grad" elements gather in their Clubs or at class reunions to reminisce about the great Crimson crews and the numerous, almost unbroken string of victories over Yale. It's a monopoly, they say, and glow the cocky glow of a giant in Yale-Harvard competition...
...defense. The private social club has every right to choose its members selectively, using any criterion it sees fit. But the abuse of this right by a patently commercial tavern, operating quite openly for private profit and not for the social benefit of any select few who gather there, must not be mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets, the law of Massachusetts proscribing racial discrimination stands flouted...
...George Marshall) was asked whether a firm stand against Russia might provoke renewed charges of "Western aggressive designs." He replied: "It won't change a damned thing. They are saying that anyhow. But it would help us to make people understand that we have to gather all our strength and resources for whatever is in store for us. Otherwise the Russians will continue to thrive on division. There is no country in the world where they have not attempted to exploit for their own benefit any political or economic confusion...
...with the NKVD. She never saw him again. Some months later she herself was ,in Kazakstan, living mostly on whey, wild roots and tea. Her job on a Soviet dairy farm was explained "in quite a friendly way" by the ouprav (overseer). She was to follow the cows around, gather their dung, smear it over the wickerwork of nearby sheds. In time the dung would dry and then presto, said the overseer, the sheds would be habitable. For this she was paid a few kopecks a week, allowed to receive an occasional parcel from home...
Tomorrow a group interested in "The Future of the U. N." will gather in Cabot Hall's Longfellow Room at Radcliffe...