Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clay's optimistic picture was not necessarily erased by these troubles. Last week's anti-American outbursts did not mean that the U.S. was losing the cold war or that many Germans were turning toward Red salvation. One demonstrator was asked by a correspondent whether he thought it would be better for the Americans to pull out of Germany. Said the worker: "For God's sake, don't leave us. Of course we strike to try to get unity and more food. Who wouldn't? But we don't want the Americans to leave...
...CRIMSON man I am sure that I will be pardoned a personal word--and I am sure, also, that I voice the sentiments of all that company of happy mean when I say that none of them would exchange his CRIMSON training for any other experience or association in college days...
...Harvard wants recovery fully as much as its distinguished graduate; its vote yesterday (a straw ballot) damning Roosevelt policies) does not signify that it wants to return to the old deal of the twenties. It does mean that undergraduates do not want the type of recovery which can only lead to chaos through uncontrolled expenditure and through the substitution of opportunism for a definite program." (October...
...because we didn't take our job seriously. The reason, I think, was rather that most of us had very few ideas about what a university ought to be and about the role it should play in twentieth century America. Let me cite an example of what I mean from my own experience...
...most difficult assignment was to fathom the doings of the "Med. Facs," a mysterious society, the invitations to which embraced acts which if detected by the College officers might mean expansion from the University. No one could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which...