Word: cruelest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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October is the cruelest month for Masters. In the face of Fall weekends they must enforce the directive that parietal hours in the Houses terminate at 8 p.m. on Saturdays of home football games. And, strangely enough, Harvard has scheduled six home games this year, five of them...
October is the cruelest month for students. Their cry is not freedom from domination, but freedom for responsibility which forms the basis for the relationship between the undergraduates and the Administration. Masters need not wait for a revolution, for it will not come; but perhaps they will decide, as they have in the past, that the nature of the student body at Harvard demands less motherly restraint and more self-restraint. Football season and the cry for parietal changes will pass, but October will come again and again...
November is the cruelest month on the Great Lakes. The icy winds from the north meet the warm, moist air from the south-and the clash brings wild gales that have torn apart scores of ships, killed thousands of people. Last week the 16,000 ton (d.w.t.), 623-ft. limestone carrier Carl D. Bradley died in Lake Michigan's cruel November...
March is the cruelest of months, yet for President Eisenhower it symbolizes the nation's return to prosperity and happiness. The President is noted for his ability to generate confidence, but his speech last Wednesday was an unfortunate voyage into a never-never land of economic prognostication with no advice offered but these magic words, "Chins...
...Critics Circle is highly Pleased at the increased interest in theatrical activity at Harvard, and hopes that it will continue unabated in the future. The theatre may be, as Brooks Atkinson said recently, "the cruelest of the Professions"; but at the student level its worthwhileness as an extracurricular activity is unsurpassed, both in its many inherent benefits to those taking part and in its cultural and educational stimulus to those beholding it. Has not many a sage told us that all the World's a stage...