Word: facings
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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...
...stronghold tradition of parietal hours has, over the years, been chipped away, undergraduates have become, not less, but more responsible. Of course, Masters are, by their nature, a reticent lot, holding back where possible, conserving a tradition in the face of criticism; but it seems blatantly unfair to assume that if an argument for the responsibility of Harvard students has to be made it must necessarily come from the undergraduates themselves. Surely the Administration does not have to await a show of militancy before it acts for the benefit of the student body...
Before the five-mile varsity contest, the Crimson freshmen will face squads from B.U. and Providence in a three-mile race. Yardlings Ed Hamlin, Jim Bonnar, Lowell Davidson, and Glen Rogers should lead the Crimson to victory, but B.U., led by Bob Dias, could pull an upset...
...face of it, this is a hospital novel that makes the most of medical melodrama. But it is as far removed from the usual scalpel-and-suture bestseller as a book on home remedies is from Gray's Anatomy, and it won the choicest collection of British reviews achieved by any book in 1958. Said the Times Literary Supplement: "The book exercises a complete fascination." Said the Irish Times: "Quite possibly a masterpiece." Despite the sometimes awesome gulf that separates British and U.S. tastes, U.S. readers are likely to find themselves agreeing with these judgments of The Rack...
Mail Call. Napoleon took an immediate dislike to Lowe ("a most villainous face") and regularly called him a "hired assassin" with "hyena's eyes." Lowe insisted that Napoleon be referred to as "General Bonaparte"; Napoleon insisted that he was the "Emperor Napoleon," and refused to accept his mail or his own doctor's reports unless so addressed. When