Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal validity or is it merely a magic name for uniting different manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist indirectly and sometimes counter to their own intentions. But besides a hint that invoking a time-spirit becomes almost a necessity for the cultural historian, Bourne neglects...
...President and Fellows of Harvard, the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are "Trustees," and as such should exercise extreme vigilance whenever they give an honor in the name of Harvard. I do not know how much you were connected with the nomination, but assume that those who chose Bunche's name must consult with you, as president of Harvard...
...view of the facts that I have given above, I think the nomination of Mr. Bunche should be rescinded forthwith, and new name picked--a name reflecting loyalty to our Republic...
...this year's Yale game, the Alumni Association's Committee to Nominate Candidates for Overseers met in Boston and worked out a ten man slate that included the name of United Nations Under-Secretary Ralphe Bunche. Three months later, when the list had been published, Archibald B. Roosevelt '17 (son of T.R.) dispatched a long letter (see box) to President Pusey, expressing his horror at reading of Bunche's candidacy for the Board of Overseers, and urging Pusey to "find means to quash this most inappropriate nomination...
...mold them into a group with high esprit which will be terribly anxious to participate in the College's activities. But by no stretch of the imagination will Dudley be a real House, for it is so selected and constructed that parochialism must be its greatest common denominator. The name "House" is merely a device to conceal the fact that there will be a change in privileges but no change in relation to the rest of the College...