Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy get higher marks in the exam than Oscar, thus proving that well-rounded young American is by nature more successful that a narrow-minded foreigner. We are told that in later life Billy and Bertie are both important business executives, while Maironi publishes a book entitled The Minor Poets of Cinquesento...
...Marquand has been satirizing for the past twenty years, explores with amazingly sustained deadpan humor the narrow social sensibility that one usually associates with the "Old Grad" type. Clubs, the "Pudding," and afternoon tea at prominent Boston houses are the essential activities of George Apley at Harvard. With very minor variations, this type of society is the one that Marquand writes about when, as in Wickford Point and Sincerely, Willis Wayde, he turns specifically to Harvard. It would be silly to base a general criticism of Marquand on the fact that he does not give an entirely accurate picture...
Because the team went undefeated this season, all letter winners will receive major awards. Unless the Council elevates cross country permanently, however, next fall's team, if not a championship one, will once again receive the customary minor letter. This "reward" policy illustrates the regrettable arbitrariness of the Athletic Association's major-minor letter system. Whether or not a player receives a major letter now hinges either upon his team's spectator appeal or its success. By disregarding the amount of time, ability, and hard work a sport demands, this policy contradicts the College's tradition of sponsoring athletics because...
...finished a triumphant season. At its next meeting, the Council will pass on cross country. To gain consideration, however, the cross country team should not have to rely merely on publicity via walkie-talkie. Cross country demands just a much athletic effort as any major sport, yet remains minor by official edict. Since cross country's standards for letter awards are already high, the Council should end this inconsistency and raise it to major status...
...mass of people on the streets are mostly peasants in padded jackets, minor bureaucrats in bell-bottomed trousers and women workers in potato-sack dresses. One in ten carries a small bundled-up infant. To see Russians smile, the visitor must observe them playing with their children in the parks of culture and rest. In the back streets, scores of old men and women shuffle along hopelessly, but although they may look like beggars, it is unlikely that they will ask a recognizable foreigner for alms...