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...have to tell you that our troubles will not be over when victory comes. You do not expect the millenium once the fighting ceases. You know how long and difficult may be the post war years. In this period you will need courage, endurance, patience (above all, patience) to see it through; you will need an understanding of what it means to work in close cooperation with other men. The fortitude, loyalty and stead-fastness that come from hardship and danger serve the erstwhile soldier well even in civilian clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCERPTS FROM CONANT VALEDICTORY ADDRESS | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...know what the New Order of Europe will be like if Hitler's nightmare comes true, you can find its philosophy and its course plotted in detail. And if you're inclined to murmur "propaganda" at some of the things you hear and read, let Hitler himself explain the millenium to come...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...show will probably run into the millenium...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine spirit into the forms. Until then, may the last class election at Harvard rest in peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN MANDATE | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...Entrust the subject to one who is not only well known in this field, but who is also in existence; unite the Hygiene and the Raised-Eyebrow Departments, and the latter will perish. Then perhaps you will not be able to tell a Harvard man anything. But until that millenium Vassar will lead the fashion in marriage and Harvard will succumb, an innocent victim of superior and scientific strategy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRANDMA IN A BAR | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

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