Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect Harvard from awarding degrees to possibly undesirable people, all those recommended for honoraries must pass a triple test. A special standing committee of the Corporation, established in 1881, meets during the year to judge the qualifications of outstanding men and women. (Some people have tried to promote themselves directly as worthy recipients of doctorates, but as far as one expert upon honoraries knows, no such effort has ever succeeded.) The President of the University may direct suggestions to the committee, but the committee alone can make recommendations for further consideration...
...Nouveau habit of overstatement and slickness. Likewise, the Nouveau penchant for vegetal forms led to the functionless fantasies in glass of Louis Tiffany, America's gifted designer. The most interesting forms of his stylized works, such as the flower vase in this show, are impractical and, consequently, must be looked at as sculptures in glass. Unfortunately, Tiffany's garish color schemes lessen their value as works...
Diplomatic authorities said the President made it clear to American, British, French, and Soviet foreign ministers he feels that each new step in the negotiating process must be justified by some progress being achieved in the preceding stage...
...realize that the University must economize wherever it soundly can if it is ever to keep costs under control. But to reduce sports to club status just to save what is really a mere pittance is false economy. By degrading lacrosse the University saved $5,000. Was this sum, almost an undistinguishable digit in the multi-figured budget of the University, worth all the furor and ill-feeling that resulted? This $5,000, twice the $5,000, and I wager seven times this $5,000 could be saved if some efficient person delved into the general workings of buildings...
...this department can prove that it is efficiently run as it should be, the University must have other resources real or potential elsewhere with which to promote competitive sports so essential to the financial and physical well-being. To let each sport survive as best it can on its own would be unfortunate. Albert Gordon, Capt. Track Team...