Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians began with an air that was close to sweet reasonableness. Under the baiting of U.S. reporters, they ducked embarrassing questions ("That leads away from the question of peace"), or shrugged them off. In general, they seemed content to show themselves, prove that Russians were not monsters, declare their devotion to peace. Meanwhile they would let the Americans denounce the U.S. for them...
...Come, Sweet Death. All this is said with such politeness that many people may put down this little book without fully realizing what a deadly kick in the teeth of western culture it is meant to be. If culture is what Eliot says it is, and can be nothing else, then it is plucking at the coverlet in Britain and virtually dead everywhere else, including the U.S. But this is exactly what Eliot's Notes says-that another Dark Ages is just around the corner...
...logical answer to the Administration's objection has been proposed by the Romance Languages Department. This answer is embodied in the so-called Sweet Briar Plan. Under this, qualified juniors from any recognized college in America may study in France for one year. They are under the supervision of an American professor who accompanies them, and are allowed to elect courses at any of the outstanding Paris institutions. This plan, administered by Sweet Briar College, is carried out under the auspices of a committee of the Institute of International Education composed of professors from Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth...
Recently, the entire Romance Languages Department went on record unanimously in favor of the Sweet Briar Plan. Associate Professor Francis M. Rogers, Chairman of the Department, feels that students are under adequate supervision and do at least as much work as they would in this country. He points out that awarding of credit by Harvard would be a comparatively simple matter. The French university would send the College a transcript of the student's record. If his grades were satisfactory, the College would grant credit for a full year. If they were not, credit would of course be withheld...
Surely here is a reasonable system of safeguards. In fairness to those who want to study abroad, the College should either participate in the Sweet Briar plan or set up a similar arrangement...