Word: impetuses
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...Impetus to the more formal debates of the early 20th century was given by a number of prizes, including the Coolidge Prize, endowed in memory of T. Jefferson Coolidge 1850 and awarded annually to the two best speakers in a practice debate preceeding the Triangulars. The prize, won this year by Robert M.O'Neil '56 and David P. Bryden '57, is awarded on the specifications established in the instructions to the judges for the Triangular Debates...
Under the impetus, of this attack, Harvard Apathy would die. Caldwell Titcomb's baroque national anthem, and the Ibis, national bird, would lead the Nation from lethargy to triumph. E unibus plenum...
...impetus has been one of gratitude, not of defensive obligation. "After all," Sachar explains, "the Jewish community always chose to make its great gifts to existing institutions" with such happy results as Harvard's Littauer School of Public Administration...
...such a change would, no doubt, be small. Nevertheless, it is the colleges which ultimately must set the standards for lower education. If high schools are led to believe that the colleges will take care of language instruction, that is exactly what they will have to do. The impetus to raise standards must come from...
...these matters would be thoroughly investigated." Had he discussed the problem with President Eisenhower? "The decision was fully concurred in by the President, and I do not believe that I should discuss my relations with the Executive." What Hoover did not discuss was the fact that most of the impetus toward the hold order had come from the President, vacationing in Thomasville, Ga. Lacking full information on the transaction, and informed by Press Secretary James Hagerty that there was great furor about it, the President wanted the shipment held until he, as well as the public, could be reassured...