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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alone. The artist must create from within, the says, but it can't be done until techniques becomes habit, and devices spring up automatically. Craftsmanship is the key to the successful writer's trade. Only when the apprentice learns the craft and chooses his weapons will his message, no matter how great, be heard. "But no real prose talent is going unpublished," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Ciardi: Poetry, Prose, and PCA | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

...face of all this optimism, William A. Rusher 3L, president of the Young Republican Club, felt it necessary to repeat that "only one person will or can win--no matter how long or how hot the battle may rage at tonight's convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rival GOP Camps Gird for Tonight's Mock Convention | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

Building for a permanent third party nevertheless "has to begin where you are" in his view, no matter how much of a toss-up it is whether the inevitable realignment of the Democratic Party will occur through the South's bolting or the liberal-labor bloc's joining with the Wallaceites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Party Gets Raspberry, Cheers | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

Again, in the thorny matter of the use of University buildings by student organizations. Dean Watson simply administers regulations laid down by others. The Corporation, the Caretaking Department, the Maintenance Department, other schools of the University, the Cambridge police regulations and tax laws are all involved in this. The Dean's Office had little to say about it except to carry out as equitably as possible the reasonable regulations which have been laid down. Since there are expenses involved in the use of buildings and since there are some seventy organizations as well as numerous non-student and unorganized groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Second is the matter of University financial aid to undergraduate activities. Harvard never has subsidized student organizations and this would seem to be a poor year to start. Yet about fifteen student organizations have asked for a subsidy of some sort this year and we could easily spend a hundred thousand dollars a year assisting various activities. Obviously we can not subsidize the Band unless we are also willing to subsidize the Glee Club and the Debating Council and the Polo Team and the Orchestra and the Dramatic Society and the Advocate and possibly the HYD or even the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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