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...Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...
...elected over token opposition in 1948 and 1950, Kennedy was already zeroing in on the 1952 race against Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., ordered his secretary to accept speaking engagements only outside his own district. There was not really much difference between the politics of the two: Kennedy, in many ways, was a conservative sort of Democrat, and Lodge was a liberal Republican. Kennedy accused Lodge of Senate absenteeism and Lodge accused Kennedy of House absenteeism (both were right). Kennedy's slogan was "Kennedy Will Do More for Massachusetts," and Lodge's was "Lodge Has Done...
Almost every elementary course in the College begins with a lecture on how basic classical learning is to the subject in question: science, mathematics, philosophy, history, government, drama, and the like. And after paying this token tribute or explaining that the Greeks lived in city-states or that Greek culture was molded by the geography of Greece, the course moves on to something else...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14--The United States and Britain brushed aside strong French protests today and ordered a token shipment of small arms sent to Tunisia in an effort to prevent the French colony from turning to Soviet arms suppliers...
...reply has been received from the White House as yet, but the two expect some sort of answer shortly. They seemed rather unconcerned about the possibilities of their not coming back. "As an immigrant," said Boulukos, "I feel this would be but a small token to repay America for the great opportunity of being one of its citizens...