Word: assignments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavenly Council of Love has met to assign him the feat of punishing mankind for its lust. God is too senile to start over, and the redemption of human soul is his only reason for existence, so fits of wrath like flood and fire are out this time. The devil ponders the problem and answers it with syphilis in the guise of an utterly naive and entrancing woman. The Virgin Mary is belatedly overcome with pity for humanity and ignores her promise to reward this hellish effort despite the demon's defence that his victims will still be capable...
...special qualities of excellence and achievement. Harvard, they feel, has a special obligation--indeed, a mission--to uphold standards. Doubtless it is good for morale that so many Harvard professors share this notion of Cantabridgian superiority, but the delusion can be harmful if it leads them to impose gargantuan assign ments upon our students. Fortunately Harvard professors who have taught elsewhere can remind their parochial colleagues that Harvard undergraduates are practically in-distinguishable, in ability and in accomplishments, from those at a dozen other institutions and that a Harvard degree is simply one of many reputable undergraduate degrees that students...
Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, said last night it was necessary to assign additional sophomores to the Quad to replace a "large group of graduating seniors" who are leaving the Quad...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) did little to change the present housing system and offered no solution to the problem of the Quad Houses' unpopularity, Dean Rosovsky two weeks ago "reluctantly" accepted the CHUL's proposals, except for one "minor" alteration in the system used to assign freshmen to Houses...
Elaborate books have now been devised to assign the cost of the seats on Air Force One on the basis of what each staffer does on each trip the President takes...