Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...
...doubt children, old women, and the sentimental will cry. And in their interest, we would add a plea for mercy: let not the innocent suffer with the guilty. Pigeons are ugly, evil, and dirty, but sparrows and squirrels are not. Sparrows and squirrels are merely the dupes of pigeons. It is a well-known fact that pigeons use these amiable creatures as fronts, that food intended for the squirrels ends up in some pigeon's pockets. Therefore, in the interests of mercy, the signs on the Common should be changed to read...
Examiners are evil when they do not return students' exams to them. This, fortunately, can be remedied simply: the Faculty should vote that all those who give examinations must return blue books to any students who want them, by mail for May exams, if necessary. The only professors disturbed by this change will be those amateur witch-doctors who burn the blue books from their courses as a symbolic destruction of their students...
Graders are evil when they fail to give more than a grade. If examinations are to be a useful educational device, they require analysis and comment. Unhappily, the faculty cannot legislate into existence adequate comment by graders. They can, however, adopt the CRIMSON'S attitude toward present evil practices, and view with alarm...
Phillips and former Council member Roger Leed last week called Monro's attitude "highly unethical for a member of the Administration," and said that College officials should maintain complete silence on the issue of Council reorganization. They blamed Monro for putting the evil idea of realignment along the lines of an inter-House council into the head of Dunster's William Bailey...