Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth is the History of European Literatures and Study of the Principal European Authors, requiring two courses in certain ancient or modern languages, or in the works of certain major writers...
...long last the House Masters meet today to consider the recommendations in the Student Council Report published two months ago. It can only be hoped that such tardy action does not indicate rejection of the stop-gap measures which have been advocated. The two major suggestions of the Report--the compulsory admission of Juniors and Seniors to Houses and the Associate Member Plan--seem to be the only practical immediate solutions to the House problem at Harvard. And, as such, they should be accepted by the House Masters...
Despite the fact that the three Harvard major sports teams experienced rather unsuccessful winter campaigns on the whole final figures indicate that seven winter sports squads have compiled a record of 50 wins against 41 defeats for a .549 rating for the season's activities...
...Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...
Author Anderson pretty well clinches his proof that Melville wrote fiction. All his hammering does not chip an inch off Melville's stature as one of the major figures of U. S. letters...