Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past two years he has been a teaching assistant in the department of political science at the university. During his educational career tenBroek won membership in Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Sigma Rho, debating honor society; Pal Sigma Alpha, political science honor society; Order of the Colf, legal honor body, and the Golden Bear and Winged Helmet honor societies...
...undeveloped raw materials alone, this area is--not excluding Siberia--the richest in the world. Benefits from the potential investment would accrue to both halves of the American continent. But the risks to private capital arising from unstable political equilibrium and the record of debt repudiation in the past make it unlikely if not impossible that under normal circumstances this capital would ever be put to work...
...colleagues. Here in particular, a man like Richards is capable of injecting a gush of vitality into Harvard's ailing English department. In the final analysis, it is simply a question of whether the giants will continue to progress and to create, or whether they will stolidly rest on past achievement. An in this case, the augurs are generally favorable...
...Noon" by Kenneth B. Murdock, professor of English and Master of Leverett House, is cited in the article as an example of the teaching of past events and obscure personages, while "The New Deal in Action, 1932-1938," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, is mentioned as dealing with "the sunshine and shadow of today" rather than with the remote "sun-at-noon stuff...
...realistic solution of this dilemma would mean a compromise between numbers and the ideal of extra-curricular learning. If President Conant is still anxious for large numbers of Harvard men to be bathed in America's past, let the Program catch the Freshmen as they enter the Yard, fresh and eager to try their intellectual wings. Let the farcical Bliss Prizes be abolished and the money be given for the best Freshman essays on some phase of American civilization. This year's successful tie-up with English A can be extended to other Freshman courses, and will undoubtedly draw...