Word: third
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 ruled that this year's Thanksgiving be celebrated a week earlier on November twenty-third, his opinion as former editor decided the policy of the Crimson. But the force of tradition has struck again. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Saltonstall, muttering something about the good old days of our forefathers, contrarily changed the date back to November thirtieth...
...when constitutional rights are being challenged on many fronts, the Governor's move came as a shock. In tampering with Thanksgiving--which involves freedom to worship without restriction--Massachusetts is weakening the traditions which the Pilgrims fought to establish. Outside of the Women's Republican Club, a November twenty-third holiday is a national sentiment. Mr. Saltonstall is presuming to tell the Commonwealth it cannot follow its own desires...
...Houses and the dormitories met in a debate over the subject: "Resolved, That This House Approves the Nominating of President Roosevelt for a Third Term," last night in the House Common Rooms...
...course, one expects this in works like the Hanson symphonies (the third will be played in Sanders Theatre this week) and in Hill's Violin Concerto (also on the Sanders Theatre program), for these men have never been identified with the most advanced group of modern composers. But even the composers who adopted the starkest writing of the post-war period seem to have modified their attitude recently...
Lewis Mumford, historian and critic, will speak on "Cultural Backgrounds of American Architecture" in the third of a series of public lectures on backgrounds of American architecture this evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...