Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcing the formation of the committee two weeks ago, Provost Buck said that the General Education report, which listed advising as one of the main educational problems yet to be solved, was directly responsible for the new survey...
...Harvard total is exclusive of the contribution by the local Combined Charities Drive, the allotment of which has not been made yet. This contribution will make the University average higher than the 89.9% achieved by the colleges and schools in the area...
Cantankerous as his opinions were, he hated physical violence. He was deeply grieved when one of his sons killed a man in a duel, yet he advised his boys to become soldiers rather than politicians because: "In battle men kill without hating each other; in political contests men hate without killing, but in that hatred they commit murder every hour of their lives...
...commonplace books are peppered with lugubrious notices on the passing of old friends, for death disturbed him. Yet, in 1792, he wrote down a wry "Eulogium on Death": "1. It relieves unhappy and discontented husbands and wives; 2. It relieves children from parents who keep them too long out of their estates; 3. It relieves Physicians of incurable patients ... 5. It relieves the world of old men who keep the minds of men in chains to old prejudices. These men do not die half fast enough. Few Clergymen, Physicians, or Lawyers beyond 60 do any good to the world." When...
...problem of food at a college which has most students in residence is inevitably a stormy one. Even staid Harvard has lived through food riots, and occasional attacks of food poisoning, resulting in wide-spread student reaction. Yet, the violence of undergraduate feeling is tremendous. It is far greater than it would be if a food poisoning out-break were the sole cause. The average attitude of most men toward the Dining Hall offerings has always been somewhat hostile. So students, when presented with definite evidence of bungling, make the most of it with denunciations and action...