Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upped its budget from $17,000 to $250,000, its staff from 17 to 70, set up a nursery school, opened clinics for TB and dentistry, organized classes in sewing, cooking and upholstery. Planner House now provides everything from a full-fledged cannery to individual garden plots. The motto of the house: "The door to self-help...
Jordan has had outstanding players at Harvard since--Buddy LeMay, Dick Clasby, John Culver. But he has always continued to emphasize the team. "Block, tackle, and run," has been a satisfactory motto on the field, but he has supplemented it with a three-point code. "First, I consider what's good for the boy. Second, what's good for the institution he represents, and third, what's good for the sport." These standards are not mere eyewash: Dick Clasby, injured in last year's Davidson game, might have made the difference in the Princeton game. But even though Clasby...
...bring together the country's Nationalist rulers and Communist rebels in a coalition government. ("Broadening the base of Chinese democracy" said the Truman-Byrnes directives, which Author Stuart appends to his book, and which make hair-raising reading in 1954.) The author of Yenching's famous motto, "Freedom Through Truth for Service," accepted this last, fateful call to service. Thereafter, by one of history's harsh ironies, Missionary Stuart served as chief U.S. representative while China's door was slammed shut and "all that I had previously accomplished in the country . . . was apparently being destroyed...
...obtained a location big enough to have a place of honor. In 1952 the band moved to its present headquarters at 9 Prescott Street, through the courtesy of the Varsity Club above. Once dusty walls are now enlivened by appropriated road signs: old refrigerators now house uniforms. The band motto, "Illegitimacy Non Carborundum," adorns a main wall...
...motto ("Don't Let the Fellows Wear You Down) is perhaps less than delicate. But for that matter, so is the band. The niceties of nuance and proprieties of gentlemanly behavior are for more sedate organizations. Once, in a typically caustic vein at a typically ragged rehearsal, Holmes announced: "This has got to come to a screeching halt." He may well have expected the bandsmen to stop screeching, but as for a half, well, in spite of money troubles. Yale brickbats, and fatiguing greyhound bus trips,--the Sprit of the Harvard Bend Goes On and On.MALCOLM H. HOLMES...