Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials have invited individual undergraduates or undergraduate organizations which are interested in the national defense effort and wish to take part in Harvard's preparation program, to consult members of the committee. The latter will "serve as a clearing house of ideas and will undertake to help in the organization of such activities as seem desirable...
...been suggested that the enormous task of comparing prices and tracking down the radio men who charge five dollars for the tubes they didn't replace will prove too much for the Council committee, unless they wish to make a professional job of it and engage in legal tangles. On the other hand, a lot can be done without calling in a lawyer. The Council hopes to succeed in most cases by merely consulting with the firm in question. Clear cut cases of dishonesty, if they arise, will be informed that they aren't going unnoticed, and even subjected...
...good old Saturday night tub bath" has been the complaining cry of J. Leo Rost, a Dunster House Senior in his three years in Cambridge. And now, he at last has his wish, for he has provided himself with a portable, collapsible, rubber tub, in which he is went to "idle among the soap suds with a good book...
...Board was of the opinion that the need for "Generals" at mid-years will not be so great in later years, because by proper planning of their work and by Summer School, students in the present Freshman and Sophomore classes who wish to finish in less than four years can qualify to do so under the new three-year acceleration program...
...Kittredge was a lively debater in Faculty meetings, especially in his earlier years of service under President Eliot, and I often wish I had kept a record of some of the incidents in which he played a part. The Faculty was then a smaller and less formal body than now, and discussions often became personal. One dean, I remember, after a heated exchange with another, notified him that thereafter his address would be No--, University Hall, "for business communications only...