Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seniors would cheer alumni; alumni would raise a whoop for undergraduates. Round the track the graduates would march. In 1821 the Class of '18 disguised themselves as bottles of "home brew," in memorium, so to speak. The focus of interest had shifted slightly by 1937, and some alumni, dressed in Bavarian costumes, paraded with posters announcing they had "A Code in our Heads," or simply stating that the "Blue Eagle is a Yale Bird...
Leonard Boudin, a prominent passport lawyer, will address the Harvard Liberal Union's forum tonight. He will speak on "The State Department vs. The Right to Travel" in Emerson...
Accompanying a motion to dismiss treason charges against Ezra Pound had come an impassioned plea from a fellow poet. Wrote Robert Frost: "I feel authorized to speak very specially for my friends, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot. None of us can bear the disgrace of letting Ezra Pound come to an end where...
Since the defeated United Party largely appeals to the 1,200,000 English-speaking South Africans, while the Nationalists concentrate on the 1,650,000 Boer descendants who speak Afrikaans, the London Economist was moved to wonder whether the Afrikaners had emerged as the master race, "with the English, the Coloureds, the Indians and the Natives as a descending order of inferior castes." Premier Strijdom, in his victory speech, announced his conviction that South Africa as a "republic is coming sooner than the United Party expects...
...here again one supects that Russell would first of all smile and remark that this is a grossly unhistorical idea of what millions of Christians have meant for centuries whenever they said "and He was made man;" and secondly that his opponents speak they-know-not-what...