Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps by luck or by some unfathomable wisdom of these latter-day founding fathers, this constitution is what is needed to solve student problems that are peculiar to Harvard. But this law-making by conjure has achieved just the reverse. Ten years later this product of an elite father and an indifferent mother finds itself in greater disrepute than its pre-1936, constitution-less, predecessor. Ten years in which nearly 50 percent of all members got their start through appointment to one of the unelected Freshman committee and, with this initial advantage, proceeded through four years of Harvard politics...
...University has obtained the use of a former Red Cross building, which includes a theatre, for entertainment facilities, and a clinic and infirmary. Two doctors have been procured for the latter, which will be run along the same policies as those of Stillman Infirmary. Also in the process of acquisition are a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a bowling hall...
...Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden last week, military authorities prescribed "special alertness" for amateur astronomers and laymen. The latter said: "The Russians are getting fresh...
Richard Stockton Bullit Darlington '48 has been reading newspaper accounts of the Case of the Missing Masterpiece with more than a passing interest lately, but he is maintaining a strict neutrality in the $100,000 court battle between his mater and his alma mater over the disappearance from the latter's Fogg Museum of the former's masterpiece by Rubens, "Descent from the Cross...
Although all the men are now sergeants, the question of rank has long been a bone of contention between the Army band and the Navy and Marine bands. The latter had always had all their men in the first three grades. During the war the Army band had no trouble in finding skilled musicians, but with the onset of rapid demobilization it was found necessary to give the increase in ratings in order to keep the talented men they had acquired...