Word: sic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hofeld's attitude and in fact the general dubious methods of the entire campaign only confirm a previously held conviction that the Student Council at Harvard College is nothing more than a band of low, cheap, conniving pirates totally unprincipled in its savagery of extortion, a tight cliche (sic) which, after carefully replacing the windows in its office with mirrors, spends many pleasurable hours looking out and formulating student opinion. (formulating is really too strong a word to be used here as it implies a thinking process...
...Berlin blockade) made some incisive contributions to the search for a temperate answer. "Sovereignty," he said, "does not mean the right to do exactly what you please within your own territory. The maxim, 'So use your own that you do not hurt that which belongs to another (Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas),' is one which is accepted by every legal system in the world." Furthermore, said Lloyd, "there is no real substance in the idea that a state suffers infringement of its sovereignty by allowing an international authority to perform certain functions in its territory...
...sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals and are busy thinking and painting are all stimied." (sic) But in the midst of the inanity and polemic, i.e. expresses forcefully generally felt undergraduate fears that creeping prestige-consciousness threatens their intellectual integrity. Although i.e.'s attempt to prove that the University is somehow responsible for human vanity seems unfounded, it seems seriously concerned and deserves serious consideration...
...their articles about them. The house articles are all too short, having suffered most from the Yearbook's general reduction in size. Approximately one-fourth their regular length, the house descriptions cannot adequately discuss personality, or even stereotypes. Adams, the freshman's "first choice than any other house" (sic) is described tritely and dully; Dunster's "party house" stereotype is reapplied and not examined; amazingly diverse Eliot House is given two paragraphs; Leverett House gets a contrived and badly-written dialogue; and Lowell House is characterized in pseudo-Shakespearean writing of the worst sort. Intimacy and flavor are hard...
...amused to know that my coachman, Franklin [sic] Hall, who has a large family of small children (including a small boy named after me), has recently been presented with another small boy, and my little girl Ethel, who acted as its godmother, selected Leonard Wood for its name. This was done purely on her own account and I never knew of it until a few days ago. Tell Mrs. Wood...