Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seriously question," the editorial concluded, "whether Harvard, in its appointment of Oppenheimer as William James lecturer for 1957, is conscientiously serving 'Veritas,' the motto it so strongly desires its students to follow unflinchingly...
...biggest big stick in its history: an armed force far mightier than the Russians', presided over by Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a man who doodles (see cut) while listening to his colleagues, and who reflects his hard-driving personality in his motto, "The more our country sweats in peace, the less it will bleed in war." See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Man Behind the Power...
...emphasis on "the promotion of literature" is just as strong as it was when Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous address on "The American Scholar" in 1837. In it, in lines which nineteenth century schoolchildren recited at class ceremonies, he expressed the ambitious thoughts which might be the motto of the Phi Beta Kappa Society itself...
...Hungary's Freedom Fighters hope to win? The answer is that, unlike the Poles before them, who infiltrated the party apparatus and to an extent controlled their break from Moscow, they did not pause to think that far ahead. Their motto might well have been that of another great romantic, William of Orange: "One need not hope in order to act, nor succeed in order to persevere...
...challenge that "more and more people are seeking a university education" be it hereby resolved that there be established a Society for the Contraction and Preservation of Harvard College, the broad purpose of which will be to protect the vested interests of those presently enrolled and to proclaim the motto that stone walls do not a prison make, nor ivy walls an education...