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...comment) in that they restored dramatically the spirits of a police force low in morale, bitter because of what it took to be still one more instance of political opportunism--at its expense, humiliated by sweeping public allegations against its professional honor: Integrity in the law. (Until proved, the cruelest allegation against a professor is sophistry; against a fighter, cowardice; against a policeman crime.) Cardinal Cushing's wisdom lay in restoring honor to the force, without which the force has no professional use. The limitation of his wisdom lay in the short-term, immediate nature...
Crudest and cruelest of the current reapportionment battles, however, was in California. Because population in ten years had increased by a whopping 48.5%, the state gained eight additional House seats, the largest pickup of any single state. In control of the legislature for the first time in seventy years. California Democrats lovingly reworked boundary lines. Their handiwork ensures that all eight additional seats will probably be filled by Democrats. So will three other, normally Republican, districts, where lines were re-formed to include decisive numbers of Democrats. California Republicans, who worked much the same gerrymander ten years ago when they...
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...