Word: aurelian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens let out a noise that could be heard distinctly above the traffic's roar. Tunneling for one underpass, charged critics, would irretrievably weaken the 16th century gate at the Piazza del Popolo, as well as whole sections of the city wall built by the Emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275). "Our trees are being slaughtered," added Columnist Indro Montanelli. "because they have neither voices nor votes. We are being drowned in a wave of cement...
...Yale's Aurelian Honor Society--an organization of 15 seniors--recently issued a 13-page report entitled "Academic Indifference at Yale." As the title indicates, the report criticizes the University. It also, however, offers some interesting--and provocative---solutions to the problems it poses...
...week by the common fate of all men. The event was so big that only the simplest words could form his epitaph: he was the most powerful man of his time-the most feared and hated. He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
...honor societies--Torch and Aurelian --also pay homage to what one professor called "the outstanding guys." For their 30 or so members, it is a rather pleasant relationship, with a luncheon every week and a few lectures and projects. But they are coveted far beyond their value or necessity on the Yale scene...
Although President Seymour, a Bones man, has expressed his liking for a hands-off administration policy, other university higher-ups as well as many secret society men outside Bones have been concerned about the problem. When a dozen Torch and Aurelian Honor Society juniors drew up a statement last week deploring present Tap Day procedure and urging an inter-society council to work out a solution, one administration official sent copies of the statement to powerful society alumni representatives...