Word: obtaining
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Speaking before a gathering of top University officials, Faculty members, and patrons of the Center, Pusey sketched the history of his efforts to obtain a home for the arts at Harvard, and said that "there never was a more generous and more understanding patron" than Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05, who donated...
...defense rather than of scientific research, when Morrow turned his project over to the Air Force. Information related to West Ford was classified, and those who believed that the dipoles could not be as effective, say, as Telstar, had to argue with only the scraps of information they could obtain. Many scientists, especially those involved with the space program, are worried that once the government has been sold on an idea, the political and military overtones make criticism impossible...
...while the nation's campuses seethed with spring fever, Harvard was relatively quiet. The would-be panty seekers found themselves locked out, finally resorted to chasing a lone 'Cliffie to Eliot Hall where they gained entrance. But the group had little idea of how to obtain panties and left shortly after, offering their bursar's cards in an ignominious gesture of surrender to waiting police...
...lieu of a blood test, one need only examine the term "stream of consciousnes literature." It is astonishing how Jamesian some passages of Miss Stein's essays on the art of writing sound. Surely the extent of the dalliance is clear beyond reasonable doubt. And if we can obtain the conviction, we must congratulate the father on his splendid brood. For Gertrude Stein did not spawn just one "natural" child but an unnaturally gifted litter of literary figures. Her American progeny include, by the way, such robust bastards as Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson...
William James came to Harvard as an undergraduate in 1861. He never managed to obtain an A.B. degree, nor did he ever earn a Ph.D. Forty-six years after his arrival he resigned his chair in the philosophy department. During the intervening time James taught in four different fields, suffered from numerous physical ailments, and was plagued by a period of intense depression and despair. Wide oscillation in mood and great restlessness gave him a peculiar aura of unpredictability. He was forever darting off to Europe and voicing doubts of his capacity for sustained work...