Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more significant factor affecting Ethos' decision not to act was the response it anticipated from the rest of the campus. "The majority of kids would be turned off by harping on the October 7 meeting," explained Karen Williamson '69, past president of Ethos. "From experience we know we can't get a concerted effort with white students. We met resistance last year; even the upperclassmen don't want to change what Wellesley means. I have a feeling that the mass of Wellesley students would be against...
...Harvard that by their senior year the preppies do almost as well as the pubbies. Also, the median predicted rank group for preppies is 3.6 as compared to the Dean's List 2.9 for pubbies. This is especially significant because predicted performance ratings for students are based partly on past performance of students with the same type of education. The predictions show Harvard knows from past experience that the pubbies it admits will do better than the preppies it prefers (although preppies with poor undergraduate records often go on to do very well in graduate schools...
...worst is over," the patient said confidently to himself, feeling the deadening novocaine take control of the right side of his mouth. He had a few minutes to think, and looked past the dreary green window curtains out at the drab, decaying, worn brick roofs of Cambridge buildings. "Soon I will be back out there," the patient thought to himself, "where there are real battles to fight, instead of the false battles in this etherized hell." With that though, he forgave his fear, and thought of women, and of whiskey...
...then one thinks of Wilbur, translating with near-perfection the plays of Moliere in their original rhyme and metre (Tartuffe and The Misanthrope), imitating Villon and odd old Provencal poets in a transcription of literary history, cajoling the past into colloquial forms. If anything, it is remembering forgotten languages, not forgetting the few that we so awkwardly remember...
...generate an aura of contentment. I noticed that some of the slaves suffered under cruel masters. I noticed that the author deplored cruelty to slaves and condemned cruel slave masters. I noticed that every single one of the slaves who joined Turner did so because he sought revenge for past wrongs inflicted by cruel masters. Not a love of freedom, not to relieve family or friends from the evil burden of slavery, only for revenge. Every single...