Word: presentness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such a committee may well find no cause for action, and if so it will remain inactive. Harvard has a tradition of 300 years of academic freedom behind her, and we feel sure that this will not suffer especially in the present period of wars and crises. We simply think that there should be such a committee standing ready to defend this traction against attack from any source whatever
...world and its leaders must look beyond the present war. Blood is being spilled; and the statesman is less than human who is not trying to achieve, at this terrible cost, a world in which peace can endure. Neither is he a true statesman if he does not realize that, under the present system of the balance of power and economic nationalism, such a world is impossible. He must pin his hopes on a world federation; and though men have tried this before and failed, he must realize that to say it is impossible is to say that...
...need for improved graduate housing and eating facilities is generally agreed upon, and Dean Landis' Plan seems to offer the germ of the solution. If adoption of the proposal and the suggested method of financing it prove feasible after investigation, the graduate students will be promoted from their present orphan status to their rightful place around the University hearth...
Probably 30 men of the present somewhat cumbersome squad have shown definite possibilities. At the top of the list, not only because he is captain of the team but for his superior performances, is Eric Cutler, lanky 220 and 440 free-style expert who was undefeated last season in the latter event and who placed second to Ohio State's Stanhope in the N.C.A.A. 1500-meter final last spring. Rick has not been hindered at all this year by the arm injury that kept him out of competition during his Sophomore year, the result being that his prospects are good...
...advocate a great militaristic movement, but do feel that those men interested in the present situation would gain much through service in the Guard. They, as Harvard men, would be getting into an organization which has, more than once, stood for things above and beyond Harvard. William F. Murray '41. President of the Caisson Club...