Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, along with a months-high accumulation of mailbags, assorted comforts, phonograph records, clothing, etc. tagged for Pitcairn, the essential works of VR6AY, sent back last spring for repairs, lay in Panama, still waiting for a British merchantman which war orders sent elsewhere. Chances were, according to Pitcairn's best-informed friends and radio acquaintances, that the islanders were as much in the dark about this war as they were about the last. Worse yet, they were probably in extreme need of foodstuffs, medicine, other necessities, which in recent years they have got largely from tourist ships...
...their sovereign rights, in order to clear the way for some more organic union. But if it is our hope to create a more truly international system out of independent States, we must learn the lessons of the past. No paper plan will endure that does not freely spring from the will of the peoples who alone can give it life. . . . There is a cynical saying that it is often the task of the wise to repair the harm done by the good. When this war is over, we shall have to see to it that wisdom and good will...
...Next Spring's changes are about as good as usual," said Freshman crew mentor Harvey Love yesterday afternoon at the Newell Boathouse, but refused to commit himself any further...
...spring months of last year saw two sweeping statements on Harvard education--a report of a special Faculty committee recommending a new "area" plan of concentration, and a Student Council report advocating the introduction of five broad survey courses, to be compulsory. The first is slowly reaching the stage of reality, while the second, to the best of anyone's knowledge, is just gathering dust in the Publications Office...
Chester N. Greenough, Professor of English, died in the spring of 1938, and Kirsopp Lake, Professor of History, resigned in 1937. Professor Lake is an example of a man giving only part time to the English department. George L. Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, resigned...