Word: legion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Never in the 19-year history of Yale University's Chubb Fellowships-established to spark student interest in politics-had such intense preparation been made for a guest. Earlier "Chubbs" had included such controversial figures as Glubb Pasha (former commander of the Arab Legion), Adlai Stevenson, Barry Goldwater and Henry R. Luce. This time students and faculty alike set New Haven palpitating with plans. Passes were issued to members of classes in which the honored visitor would lecture, so that outsiders would not usurp regulars' seats. Radical activists prepared an 18-point questionnaire calculated to embarrass him. Campus...
...musical organization the band's handicaps are legion. Faced with playing the dual role of School and Concert band, the group suffers from problems of identity, as well as conflict of interest and rehearsal time. Then there is the added problem of the basically limited repertoire of works originally composed for band. Nevertheless, conductor James Walker always manages to put together an adventuresome program that depends remarkably little on John Philip Sousa...
...Following the lyrics word-for-word, which Peter Larson's chorus unexpectedly makes possible, is doubly satisfying. Last night's audience applauded only at "And though by all the birdies in the boughs he/is informed that his efforts are perfectly lousy." But the great lyrics in Anything Goes are legion...
...leader of the campaign against the petition, Leo F. Malloy, state commander of the American Legion, said that the measure's defeat proved that "the people of Cambridge are really interested in backing our President." Malloy said that "the old neighborhoods of Cambridge" were predominantly against the petition, and the 'yes' vote came from "intellectuals and transients...
...Princeton people are always impressed when someone supports civil rights," replied Steven P. Goldberg '69 for the Harvard team. Goldberg went on to attack Rockefeller's stand on Vietnam, citing his praise of the American Legion for "its unrelenting vigilance against atheistic communism...