Word: qua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to this majority, there is the small group of students who either by election as representatives of a class or a House, or by election to office within their own activity, take on a new status, not only as student qua student, but also as student qua leader. The member of Student Council, the president of the Lampoon, the president of the Young Republican Club can no longer regard his extracurricular activity as merely extracurricular. It is a part of his curriculum, and it affects his standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group...
...practical matters of Marshal and Council elections are but a mechanical byroad of a major problem raised by the inability of Harvard undergraduates to choose someone to represent them. The consequences of this situation involve the whole relation between academics and extracurricular activity, between students qua students and students qua leaders and even between the Faculty and the student body...
...rhythms, colors, and impulses universal in nature, and who identified with it and drew from it. But there have been others eager to exploit the primitive motif rather than enrich their work with the deeper currents of primitive expression. Many of these have been commercialists rather than painters qua artist, and they haven't done the real article much good...
...wasteland effect of Huntington Ave., better forgotten perhaps, and the histrionics of Washington Street, of a more recent vintage. There are the outlying districts, the products of a new economy, functional in their own way. None the less, the antique shimmer of a Brahman past has always represented Boston qua Boston, and most likely it always will.. . . Stained glass keeps out the light...
Stumping the backwoods during one of his presidential campaigns, Andrew Jackson decided to impress his bumpkin constituents with his scholarship, let fly in bear-shaped tones with all the Latin he knew: "E pluribus unum, my friends, sine qua non, ne plus ultra, multo in parvo!" Applause resounded for miles; Jackson not only won the election, but also got an honorary LL.D. Or so says Allen Walker Read, associate professor of English at Columbia University, who tucked tongue in cheek and presented choice samples of fractured Latin in an address to the Linguistic Society of America...