Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less confusing than Harvard geography is the tumult of meetings, buildings, people, and "vital" decisions confronting an entering class. The well-meaning patronizing of sophomores, the nebulous advice of juniors, and the aloof disconcern of seniors seldom bring much order out of the chaos. The college might almost as well hire a set of carollers to wander about the Yard singing a medley of "Hold Tight" and "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen...
...guns began to go off, monarchs and ministers, dictators and presidents, said what they had to say. Soon the tumult of war would be too loud to let the world hear their voices. The headlines of papers blurred and ran together-Hitler said. . . . Daladier said. . . . Chamberlain told the House of Commons. . . . Mackenzie King announced-then changed overnight. The great names and grave words disappeared. The bombing of ships and cities, clashes on the Western Front, maneuvers on the plains of Poland, overflowed in the news...
...Doctor Gallup's enumerators reach Cambridge we shall have to remain unhappily ignorant of the relative strength at Harvard of the "tender-minded" and the "tough minded." But this we do know now: however receptive the class of '39 may be to President Conant's Baccalaureate advice "Neglect the tumult of the moment," however complacent they may become in the face of wars and panics and clashing ideologies, there is still enough energy left in them for just a little tumult. Harvard's seniors are still interested in Harvard, and they are willing to disturb the mellow mood of returning...
...concluded the sermon with the following exhortation: "Neglect the tumult of the moment; do not be afraid to be yourself. Choose a field of effort where you may develop your talents to the utmost, Labor honestly and selflessly in your chosen calling. Then in spite of the warfare of ideologies and the outcome of current struggles if your hopes be realized, at some later day it may be written of you, 'He also lived to build a finer civilization.' In the multiplication of such epitaphs the greatness of a nation may truly be read...
...knowing how he stood there but suddenly he was aroused from his hypnosis by a clangorous blast of shrill, female voices. He glanced in the direction of the tumult and instinctively braced himself at what he saw. There, headed by a stern, prim, capable-looking teacher (she couldn't have been anything else but a teacher), was a horde of adolescent females sweeping down...