Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accused of making a disturbance in Chapel. Consequently, the Juniors in another defiant meeting overwhelmingly voted to wear Black crepe on their arms for the next three weeks to display their open hostility to the administration's injustice. They also resolved to publish a circular that would give a fair account of the events...
...aphorism suggests, people who live in glass houses should not get stoned. Spying on one's neighbors is one of the most popular pastimes at U.N. Plaza. "The people across the way have a telescope," says a penthouse dweller. "I presume they are looking." The presumption seems fair. Over cocktails one night in the rooftop restaurant of the neighboring Beekman Towers, Sam and Alyce Simon accidentally discovered that the restaurant commanded a marvelous view of their bedroom...
John Clive, chairman of History and Literature, which is one of the other four departments that hold junior generals, proposed what he considers an "eminently fair solution" to the problem. History and Lit Junior generals will be postponed a week, from May 1 and 2 to May 8 and 9. "We hope that in view of this the great majority of our juniors, if not all of them, will be ready to take the examinations since they are not the sort of examinations that require weeks of intensive preparation," Clive said...
...sense behind that principle remains compelling. When President Pusey called in the police Thursday morning, he abdicated his and therefore the University's authority, as Judge Viola has clearly demonstrated. Whatever else it does, Harvard cannot now impose its own discipline on the arrested students. This is the only fair conclusion for the Faculty, the Corporation, and the so-called Committee of Fifteen to reach...
...legislature." This warning assumes that a political problem--the legitimate distribution of power in this community's government--cannot be solved legally under existing Massachusetts statutes. It also suggests that if state legislators are given an opportunity they will impose their reactionary will on Harvard to prevent a fair reform. Most who think about these problems conclude that they will have to be satisfied with whatever half-measures the Corporation and Overseers might be willing to grant...