Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each undergraduate here has probably formulated some rough notions about the influences of the college; in general, one would expect the atmosphere of the University to exert a "liberalizing" or more questioning attitude toward the legacy of opinion that the student possesses when he arrives in Cambridge. But we have tried to chart these effects on different groups among the undergraduates and to isolate the causes more accurately...
...Below are four very brief, rough statements of various attitudes toward "the Church," that is, toward organized religion. Check the one that most nearly approximates your views. 9 The Church is the one sure and infallible foundation of civilized life. Every member of society ought to be educated in it and required to support it. 201 On the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life, although certain minor errors and shortcomings are necessarily apparent in it, as in all human institutions. 63 While the intentions of most individual Church members are no doubt good, the total influence...
...Boulris is back on the beam again this afternoon, the varsity may give Yale's rather undistinguished pitching staff a rough time. The Eli hurlers who were on display here three weeks ago showed a lot of windup but very little in the way of dazzling pitching...
...groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...
Whereas T.R. made his battle name in one slamming charge, Ted had a rough time in the trenches. He was gassed at Cantigny, shot in the leg at Ploisy; at war's end, a lieutenant-colonel, he staggered through the Meuse-Argonne offensive on two sticks...