Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan's Vandenberg [Oct. 2, 1939] -Routed decisively in the Great Neutrality issue...
...Miss Zula is wise from actual contact with the various classes of human flotsam and jet some that comes floating, broken and drifting upon the shores of life's great ocean," the writer adds...
...great University "still has its fraternities and sororities, but the custom of living in the sorority and fraternity houses has pretty much given way among the students to the plan of living in dormitories...
...academic freedom, because almost everyone of any intelligence at all approves of it, just in the same way he would approve of Christian morality or young love. There may be some yapping minorities that attack it, and some paper advocates who in practice sabotage it, but still the great majority of Harvard students would condone academic freedom in extravagant terms. But granted that academic freedom is a good thing, the constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else. And the summons to this constitution of an undergraduate committee to protect it is something else. And the summons...
...second question is whether Phi Beta Kappa should god-father the proposition. No one can possibly object that this organization is coming to life, for the intellectual aristocracy sits in a coign of great vantage. But come what may, Phi Beta Kappa should exist as a completely nonpartisan intellectual organization. Whatever the proposed committee may be in theory, by fact and by reputation it will inevitably assume a color and a partisan nature. The issues dealt with will inevitably revolve in political and ethical spheres which should be strange...