Word: reflection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no point to this essay. It might, however, be comforting to reflect on to fact that Harvard still plays ball for fun. And, by the way, people here speak hushed tones when mentioning the courage of Harvard in scheduling Army. They wouldn't dream of it at the University of Minnesota. Not even when the crop ripens. (The 56-year-old Bierman yesterday asked to be relieved of his football coaching duties, the Associated Press reported. He said his request was not prompted by the poor record of this year's team, which has lost six and tied...
...last forty years the peoples and nations of the world have made many terrible mistakes; it is a sad thing that more than half of such a book as this should have to be devoted to the problem of warmaking. Yet even so, it is well also to reflect how much worse the state of mankind would be if the victorious peoples in each of the two world wars had not been willing to undergo the sacrifices which were the price of victory. I have always believed that the long view of man's history will show that...
...curiously sadistic strain" that she found in some of Wells's very first work, his fancy for cataclysmic upheavals and devastating horrors? Biographer Vallentin wonders. And yet, to all appearances, he was a hearty, jovial man, bursting with a robust humor that Miss Vallentin tries in vain to reflect, and inspired with a sense of duty to mankind that she manages to get across very well...
Robert Oppenheimer 2L, who helped arrange the series, said that the forums "reflect an expanded policy by the Law School Forum program and enable the series to have speakers from wide areas...
...Taste and Discernment among Intellectuals and Others--the group running the contest--said last night: "We are deeply honored and gratified that Professor Gropius has soon fit to accept the position of arbiter in this competition. We feel certain that whatever title is finally chosen by Professor Gropius will reflect fully the artistic magnificence and the intellectual forthrightness of this noble work...