Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while their women hung in the background howling in wild, horselike whinnies. As four "Sons of Moshesh"-descendants of the "Basuto Moses"-stood proudly by, regal Mantsebo Seeiso, "wife of the first hut" and regent for her ten-year-old nephew chief, greeted King George. "We do not wish to be separated from you and your just Government in any manner," she said...
...there was rarely a prince who was wise and even more rarely one who was pious. They are usually the biggest fools and the worst criminals upon earth. ... It pleases the divine will that we ... be unto them humble subjects, as long as they do not overreach themselves and wish to be shepherds instead of executioners...
Undergraduate golfers not on the Varsity squad will have to shift for themselves if they wish to find a place to play this spring, Carrol F. Getchell of the H.A.A. reported yesterday...
Certain peculiar problems are presented by such an evening as that which is forthcoming Monday due to the quality of the Devens community. "For those who wish to attend and cannot obtain babysitters," states Hunt, "the Village Church is arranging to have several babysitters to care for the children in a separate building...
...Bureau services are offered to all undergraduates who wish to improve their work, whether they are on the Dean's list or on probation," he adds. Perry feels that the bureau should be available to the whole range of College scholars in its program. "A student with three Bs is often more concerned about one C than a student with three Cs is troubled by a D--and it is always easier to help him." Perry says...