Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the team members have to finance their own transportation, not everyone on the team will make the trip. Coach Bill McCurdy, therefore, has termed it an informal spring training meet, with the purpose of bringing home seasoned runners, rather than team laurels. The latter would be hard to obtain anyway, for the varsity is faced by the best track stars of 40 other colleges...
Coinciding with this improved academic performance is the growing interest, part of a general Harvard awakening, of Winthrop men in their two annual plays: the House play given before the Christmas recess and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which this year will be The Mikado. The latter production, currently being rehearsed, has obtained expanded theatrical facilities and as a result will be a much more ambitious and lavish undertaking than operetta in previous years...
Gandhi called his version of civil disobedience "Satyagraha," or Soul Force. The word comes from satya, meaning truth, and agraha, meaning firmness. The former implies love, Gandhi wrote, and the latter, force; in other words, Satyagraha is "the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence." "Satyagraha," Gandhi explained, "postulates the conquest of the adversary by suffering in one's own person," and it demands that every civil resister disobey a law that is counter to his own conscience and cheerfully to demand the punishment for breaking the law. This weapon, which was to shake the British...
...latter interest is perhaps easily seen, but that in the visual arts may come as a slight surprise. Coolidge has two ideas about the situation. One is that art can appeal to people with little leisure because it has a faster impact than literature. The other is that the visual capacities of immigrants--the Greeks, the French, the Italians--are finally having an effect on our culture. This is because most Anglo-Saxons are less visual by nature than their contemporaries of European stock. The result in American terms, Coolidge says, is that "the average individual is far more cultured...
...latter category is Coolidge's inspiration for a complete photography department, with courses and exhibitions. No American university has so far touched the subject, although the artistic approach to photography would obviously create wide interest. But it is merely an idea now: Coolidge can only say he would like to see it done...