Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removes his hat cannot compare to a living memorial--serve a limited purpose only. The case can be won with advancement of the positive thesis that the College student body unequivocally wants a Student Activities Center and that the College itself needs one for a cohesive extracurricular program. Primary impetus for substantiating this thesis must come at once from the organizations themselves. Furthermore, undergraduates whose fathers take part in Harvard Club activities back home could help immeasurably by letting Dad know how they feel: pressure from the grass roots is tried-and-true for prodding solons into action...
Established in 1939 on the impetus of a fight against local commercial tutoring schools, the recently renamed Bureau of Study Counsel is now actively helping many undergraduate veterans return to academic life with a program based on up-to-date research and clinical assistance...
With the Brahmin class firmly dug in in the mud of its conservatism without the impetus of Puritan vitality, with the righteous middle class living in suburbs "the bedrooms of Boston" --outside the municipal limits where they have neither votes nor interest in reform, and with the working class content in its slums. Boston lacks the seed of initiative to overcome its inertia. In other cities a Joseph Pulitzer or a Mark Eldridge has crusaded through the newspapers and found something dynamic in the community to complement its editorials. In Boston, how ever, the press takes its lead from...
When the blizzard clears in south England, all of western Europe will look to the British cabinet for a way out of national despair. The United States can provide modern techniques and aid, and Europe the markets, but only Downing Street can lend the initial impetus that will bring the British lion in off the streets...
...midst of this ponderous Army game, a few conclusions stand clear. The first is that there is a strong impetus stemming from high places for permanent cutbacks in tutorial. Whether this squares with the Administration's claim that tutorial is now on a "firmer footing" is left for future tutor-less undergraduates to evaluate. The second is that the individual departments have been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed...