Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any controversial public figure or institution Harvard has for centuries been the subject of vitriolic attacks from politicians, press and pulpit. In the pre-McCarthy era, these assaults spanned a wide spectrum of religious unorthodoxy, social snobbery and sexual abnormality, but since the war, the University's critics have increasingly focused on the Communist issue. In recent months, the phrases "a smelly mess" and "a haven for Fifth Amendment Communists" have mostly replaced "the swish across the Charles" and "Harvard-snob" in the public's mind...
...eligible men for parties. Daniel J. Gannon at Winthrop House, who has been a painter and paperhanger in off-hours, has often taken students who wanted to ears extra money on jobs with him. Frank A. Coughlin at Adams House has specialized in providing noiseless study rooms for frantic pre-meds before final exams. One custodian declares that he has served "as house mother, father, confessor, and loan shop." But regardless of student friendships, all House night watchmen insist that they have never relaxed in inforcing the 8:00 p.m. pariotal rule...
After his sweeping victory over Princeton last Saturday, Crimson coach Hal Ulen will use this meet as a pre-Yale workout. His plans now, as all year long, are pointed towards New Haven next Saturday...
...Harvard man is a hard specimen to find-if he exists. A few, in the blues of Count Basie, do "wear Brooks clothes/ And white shoes all the time:/ Get three C's, a D,/ And think checks from home sublime." But of all U.S. campuses. Harvard is pre-eminently the land of paradox. It is the home of the Last Puritan and the first New Dealer. It has turned out Autocrats of the Breakfast Table (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829), the dinner table (Lucius Beebe, 1927), the atomic table (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1926), and the timetable (President Walter Franklin...
...story mixes evaluations of the University ("Of all U.S. campuses, Harvard is pre-eminently the land of paradox") and its new president ("Wherever he went, he was a success. Though never a flashy lecturer, he had an enthusiasm for books and men, and his enthusiasm was contagious...