Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headmaster, Gerald Miller, no wet weed: "If such a wonderful hoax had happened up at university, it would have gone down as a great university prank. Some people thought it was terrible and required discipline, others that it was deucedly clever and should be laughed off. I decided the latter, so he has had no punishment and will get none." Added the Head, who is also getting mail about Bumblie: "I hope your readers are happy about...
Included in the latter, a purely advisory group of PBHA alumni, are Buttrick, Leighton, Hastie, Hunt, and William J. A. Jablonsky, all ex-officio members, and Henry Landau 1G, PBH president in 1952-53, William G. Saltonstall '28, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, and Irving S. Michelman '39, a former PBH Social Service Committee Chairman...
...solicitation card. Its ruling stipulated that charities, to be so listed, must be student oriented, must be partially dependent on student funds, and must spend no more than ten percent of their income for administrative expenses. Now, however, the Council has decided to permit exceptions to the latter specification--the ten percent rule--for some charities. Although this criterion has not been withdrawn from the books, the Council has vitiated its future effectiveness and repudiated the principle on which it was based...
...pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception of a latter-day Bolshevik is nearer reality, it is due in some measure to that same pink-faced, white-haired prosecutor, Andrei Vishinsky. Before he suddenly died in the headquarters of the Soviet U.N. delegation on Manhattan's Park Avenue last week, Vishinsky had succeeded in putting a new face on Russian Communism...
...year examination stay to exceptional cases, most students of history must take the generals irrespective of the date on which they transfer. The prospective late-comer, faced with the unattractive alternative of undergoing a detailed examination in history or transferring to another field, too often chooses the latter...