Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the sponsorship of a group of student organizations, including the Daily Californian editors, a meeting was recently called to discuss the draft--discussion being still, presumably, one of the rights of citizens of this democracy. Promptly came forth a sharp statement from the office of President Sproul, warning that students who opposed "defending this country" might find themselves deprived of the chance to be "educated by this country...
That is the familiar picture, but it fails of the truth, this year especially. The tables are turned now, and it is the Seniors instead who are wondering uncertainly about their future. But on this September morning, this registration day, we are not going to discuss the things Seniors are worrying about. There will be much talk of them later on. Today, this weekend, the College is mainly concerned with you Freshmen, and your relatively easy problem of adjustment. You are welcome at Harvard, and after a short time you will feel at home here. It won't take...
...been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young ones, get little chance to hear how their work sounds. Last week Yaddo held its sixth long-haired jam session, officially called a Music Period...
Originally WOR feared that the program would attract no volunteers, was soon assuaged in a homely rush. Tactful but frank, Fitzgerald & Willis let the ladies discuss their own drawbacks, are always hopeful even when confronted with a clock-stopping face. Typical guinea-pig comment: "I hate to be homely. My mother's good-looking . . . and it makes me feel like such a lummox...