Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the advantages of social and geographical distribution are generally obvious to the present generation of the College, it was not so very long ago that Harvard men proudly boasted that the College was dedicated to the intelligent son of the rich father who also had gone to Harvard. Lest this attitude appear to be an almost forgotten relic of the Gold Coast days, it should be realized that at the present time Harvard College is very definitely moving in the direction of becoming, as the Admissions office speculated a month ago, "the intelligent rich man's college...
...continued: "We must seek and find the courage to do the true thing. Today God is troubling the waters. No man has the right or the power to thwart his holy will. We must find out where God is going and then get things out of his way, lest we perish. Our prayer to Almighty God ... is that we will enlarge the boundaries of our hearts to embrace in one great fellowship all his children . . . This is the one thing needful in this moment of history...
...Lest one might think from this that the Vassar girl's life is a mere round of spineless play, one is presented with a solemn full page of "Traditions:" "Salve" (a Latin greeting, not an ointment), which sings the praises of Seniors, vi-vo-vi-vo-vum; Tree Day, on which the Class of '61 must pounce upon a helpless and diseased elm and claim it as its own, thus "leaving its name with Vassar forever;" and such other unique traditions as Convocation and Matriculation...
...wholeheartedly fight with them," reported U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Stewart Service from China in 1944. "The common people for the first time have been given something to fight for." In this situation, said Service, the U.S. ought to alter its policy of supporting the Chinese Nationalist government lest it drive the Chinese Communists into the arms of the Kremlin. Last week, years after his favorable view of Chinese Communism was proved tragically wrong, Service, 48, was back at work in the State Department...
Culinary Master. This man who bargained so confidently with the world had almost every day of his life to bargain with Stalin. Yet he talked freely, never seemed worried lest he commit an indiscretion, cracked irreverent jokes. In 1946 a group of leading officials were sitting in Mikoyan's dacha, a crenelated red brick atrocity created by a 19th century czarist sugar baron. Malenkov's wife began grumbling about how poor and scarce Soviet nylons were. Snapped Mikoyan: "Yes, my dear young lady, but we have plenty of portraits of Stalin...