Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first acts in office, Sauvé took steps to consolidate himself as the new Chef, eying his Union Nationale party's first big test in expected elections next spring. From the treasury he sprang $16.5 million to build old couples' homes and aid 63 private high schools across the province. (Twenty of the schools never had received grants before because Duplessis enigmatically decided to ignore them.) Affably, Paul Sauvé set out to woo Quebec newsmen, who often feuded with Duplessis. He named a press attache "so the public can quickly be informed.'' And he quickly...
Sometime toward the end of the spring the word "workshop" was introduced into the discussions about the Program. It was generally used to refer to the teaching unit in which the Program experience would occur; but beyond this, no one was sure exactly what it meant. It was a word upon which different teachers were free to put different interpretations. It was an empty cauldron into which a variety of educational ideas and attitudes might be poured...
...some point last spring, a financial "angel" entered the picture, and herein lies another of the elements of mystery surrounding the Program. He has wished to remain anonymous, and so far this wish has been fulfilled. The scuttlebutt has it, however, that he is a wealthy alumnus who remembers his own freshman year with something less than enthusiasm, and who approached the Administration with a desire to improve the lot of future Harvard initiates. Quite likely, his generosity has by now been supplemented by support from other sources. At any rate, money does not seem to have been a serious...
...spring of 1804, Quincy was elected to the state senate and that fall to the national House of Representatives, the year when the Democratic Republicans "received the unexpected compliment of the vote of Massachusetts...
Since most students returning to Cambridge were not here at graduation time last Spring, the articles on this and the following pages have been reprinted, and in some cases revised, from last June's CRIMSON Commencement Supplement...