Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration and advice such men could offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more men of the calibre of Auden or Tate, the University's blindness to the invaluable services which such men could render has made Harvard not a center of creative effort in America, but a whistle stop on the guest lecture circuit...
...main topics expected to come up for discussion are questions concerning future membership of the Council--the issue of membership by appointment and that of elections by Houses alone are a combination of House and class. An informal straw poll will be taken at each of the meetings to obtain a sample opinion on these questions...
...morning Times. "We don't have customers, but a clientele, he repeated, and explained the friendly atmosphere that had been built up in the store, especially during the war. "We acted as Navy Store-PN to the servicemen around Harvard, and even got special permission from the Navy to obtain scarce items like soap and cigarettes. As a result, we're still getting postcards from Hawaii and Guam and places all over the world. It's an international reputation we enjoy...
...cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada can do it the U.S., with an even vaster...
...Report went on to suggest that better enforcement of the Rules would obtain if the Houses, wherever possible, and uniform Rules as to times and methods of checking in and out. In my letter to Dean Hanford, which accompanied to copy of the Report, I noted that most Houses have already taken steps to enforce the Rules properly...