Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Mother Goose, 1926, combines a maximum of bad taste with a minimum of talent. Frederick DeWolf Pingree '24 wrote the doggerel, and Robert Martin '23 drew the cartoons, some of which are amusing in conception, but suffer rather drastically in execution. At a time when Harvard was beginning to outgrow its reputation as a hotbed of social snobbery, Pingree and Martin reacted absurdly against the changing times with verses showing a jejeune anti-semitism, and a rather pitiable outcry against the expanding attitude of the Admissions Department. The following poem, called "The Club-Man-About-Ttown" or "Suaviter...
...also stated that expansion would be feasible since "We've always found the money before, and we'll find it again." Bergin and Kraft, who proposed to increase physical and teaching facilities at the same time, denied that the University's standards of admission or caliber of instruction would suffer...
Although this suggestion would not be a tremendous time-saver, it would at least be a step in the right direction. Any freshman able to pass that other "step in the right direction"--the Step Test--would hardly suffer from the lack of exercise. The Athletic Council should in turn recommend to the Faculty for final approval a one hour per week reduction in the sports requirement for freshmen...
...passing the measure, the Council officially expressed an opinion that physical condition of the student working nine hours or more per week would not suffer from the omission of one hour of exercise. The group also argued that legal reduction of PT would eliminate illegal cutting practices, and decrease the extra burden on students who must work...
...find it. If Julie dares to find it, there can be little doubt that the theater will be the richer for her experience, and she herself may one day be able to cry with Eleonora Duse: "There are a thousand women within me, and each one makes me suffer in turn . . . How I have loved life...