Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeth, and struck out for the hills. It was heading for Hanover and a dual meet with the Indians--its man power a mockery of Harvard's real running-strength. There had even been suggestions that the squad call off the meet, so low had team-morale sunk, so poor was the performance predicted for a half-manned team. But the squad decided to go ahead and do its best. When they returned victorious, the trackmen were almost as surprised as the sports writers. For track at Harvard is in a rut this spring...
...delinquents were boys sent to the Judge Baker Guidance Center by Boston's Juvenile Court between 1917 and 1922. Most of them were the sons of Boston's immigrant poor- Italian or Irish Roman Catholics. They had been arrested for stealing, gambling, truancy, fighting. Their average age was 13½. The judges before whom they were haled tried various remedies: putting them on probation, fining them, sending them to correctional schools, reformatories, jails, institutions for the feebleminded. Results...
...good cash customer of the Government I object to being treated that way, and I was probably paying for part of that radio talk on top of it. ... This idea of having everybody get poor so nobody can get rich is not going to work in the long...
With lucidity, proportion and no cheapness, Bates tells the story of those poor medieval sects (Cathars, Lollards, Waldenses, Hussites) which embraced pacifism and communism as the teachings of Christ. He shows that religious and economic motives were inseparable in their beliefs and in those of their persecutors. Middle-class Calvinism later suited the acquisitive needs of the middle class; the wilderness of America offered both freedom and advantage to both classes...
...landscape by Paul Hollister '41 is a carefully executed oil which shows more skill and technical finesse than originality; but it is a poor spectator who continually demands originality in the paintings which he sees. Honest performance and an intelligent approach have become rare birds these days, but they can be found in the work of Hollister. He is a fine draftsman, and he succeeds in rising above the stage of self-consciousness. The paintings of Elliott Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate...