Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American civilization and culture is in a transitional period, moving away from the "sensate" culture of the past four centuries, probably toward an "ideational" era closely allied to the spirit of the Middle Ages, Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told an audience of 75 at a Council of Government Concentrators "cross-question" hour in the Union last night...
That the University is a better judge of the proper allocation of monies than are donors is too obvious a point to be labored. Mr. Conant can invoke more specific arguments. Gifts for stated purposes, although rarely refused, have in the past been sources of positive embarrassment to the University. There have been lecture series, even professorships, which involved questionable and unnecessary attacks upon popular institutions, even upon religions. Negatively equivalent to this is the fact that restricted grants have frequently supported eminently useless projects. Arising, perhaps, from vital controversies in the eighteenth century, these later became unique for their...
Both girls were enthusiastic about the Charles River and said that this was one feature in which Cambridge had it all over New Haven. "What's that?" they cried as an eight-oared shell flashed past. A single was even more of a curiosity to them...
...Amsterdam of a new physiographic method of showing landscape on maps and the exhibition before the Anthropological, Ethnographical and Archeological Congress at Copenhagen of the largest map of Liberia ever surveyed are a few of the matters which have occupied Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration, during the past summer...
...intelligent voter can possibly give backing to a politician like Mr. Curley, who falsely represents the have-not's, who in his past administrations has succeeded only in demoralizing both state government and the state Democratic party. On the other side is a man, who, besides being honest, has won acclaim right here at Harvard as an active and liberal Overseer, which, to say the least, is a rare phenomenon. Consequently, this Republican son of Harvard deserves the votes of the University community...