Word: sanest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Various compromises were suggested; the Student Council mobilized itself to go down to Princeton en mass and discuss the matter; graduates from both colleges fussed and fumed, but the break remained. Perhaps the sanest observation on the whole matter can be found in a letter to the CRIMSON from a graduate of the class of '92. "When Princeton thrashed us in '89 and '90, we went through the same paroxysms and broke off athletic relations. Time has shown us older-grads how silly and wrong it was. The traditional association and common heritage of these two institutions is a real...
...inspirations of the great Swede appealed to many an intellectual who did not join the New Church; Emerson saw him as "a colossal soul [who] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue...
...nations. But diplomatic red tape and international tensions make such a meeting impossible. Bent on learning more about the earth's strange ways, Klaatu escapes from the hospital, pilfers an earthling's business suit and, as a lodger in a Washington boarding house, becomes the sanest, calmest man on the planet...