Word: impetuses
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...Freshmen were bequeathed the Union, once a club for "unclubbed" men; but now, with the prewar social traditions broken, the Union is a sorry edition of its former self. In spite of its present position, the Union can still become the unifying center for Freshmen, once given the impetus to activity...
...circumstances which offer no alternative often the result of a chance decision or of inertia and unwillingness to take the most difficult path. But Mr. Wallace, as a private citizen, were to construct a policy it would have to be built without access to certain confidential material, without the impetus of immediate, necessary decisions, and with no aids other than common sense, a conception of what is just, and a facile imagination...
Where, if not to the physics textbooks, could the postwar world turn for a new moral impetus which it so obviously needed? The Christian churches were locked in a struggle with materialism, which had been growing for 150 years and of which Communism was the deadliest projection. There could be no evading this defensive struggle; however, it absorbed a very high proportion of the energies of Christian institutions needed in other vineyards...
...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...
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...