Word: list
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest of history, Harvard's Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger* worked a variation on an old sport page diversion. He asked 55 authorities on American history to pick a kind of alltime, all-star list of U.S. Presidents. The results, listed last week in an article in LIFE, were a heartening commentary on the democratic electoral process. The U.S., in the opinion of the experts, had produced six great Presidents and only two downright failures...
...Freshmen, victims of a 39 to 0 beating by BU list Saturday, will be enormously strengthened by the return of three players from the injury list and their presence this afternoon will install the team a slight favorite over the Green...
Even Bill Cunningham, a former Green player, admits that "the one rules infraction charged against...(Harvard), and it the most minor in the list of possible crimes, cost the Crimson either an equalizing touchdown or a first down on Dartmouth's one-inch line...
...Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs should consider the aims and ideals for which the war was fought. Those whom the memorial will honor would not, I believe, have thought either a plaque or an activities center an adequate memorial to their intentions. A plaque can only list their names, doing little to further their intentions. An activities center, though badly needed, is even less appropriate, and can, after all, be built by the University...
...would memorialize these men with far greater relevance to their ideals and the present crisis than would an activities center. A small plaque could be set up in Memorial Church to tell what the money accomplished, and surely this would be a more living and generous reminder than any list of names. The need is greater, the inspiration is greater, and the effects must also be greater...