Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plan for the reorganization of the Council itself. With the inauguration of the entire House Plan next September, it is felt that radical revision in the Council organization will be necessary, in order that it may represent equally the entire College. The committee named above will recommend changes, the whole matter to be considered further at later meetings of the Council...
There was something grotesquely ridiculous about the whole ceremony that antagonized many Lowell House members and gave every indication that so unnatural a growth would have difficulty flourishing at Harvard. The long wait before the students were admitted to the dining hall and the failure of the electricity were undoubtedly unforeseen mishaps which will not reoccur. Nevertheless there still remained the spectacle of a group of performers, making a stage entrance in their dinner jackets, eating, it seemed, almost as a lesson in manners to the herd seated down in the pit, and then making an exit which gave...
...feeling that the undergraduate body of the house was dining as a unit. What good, for instance, did the undemocratic display of starched laundry, of respectable citizenry, of distinguished faculty able citizenry, of distinguished faculty bring to the students? Obviously, by all the simplest canons of good taste, the whole house should, to achieve its avowed objects, have a unity of dress and eating level...
Unprecedented, this ruling whipped up a squall of protest. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce called in William Patterson MacCracken Jr., chairman of its legal committee, demanded a hearing before the board. There was talk of a test case in court. Manufacturers?particularly of seaplanes and amphibians?were incredulous. Their whole appeal to the private flyer, upon whom they depend for much of their business, is based on the inducement of flying between city and vacation camp where lakes furnish easy, safe landing places without cost. Such lakes abound in New Jersey...
...those who read his onetime great & good friend Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That (TIME, Jan. 6), may remember the right ones. Another fine War book, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is what the name implies. It tries to give no picture of the War as a whole. "Those who expect a universalization of the Great War must look for it elsewhere. Here they will only find an attempt to show its effect upon a somewhat solitary- minded young man ... I am no believer in wild denunciations of the War, I am merely describing my own experiences...