Word: hare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Cedar Hill recommended substitution the "Hare System" of counting preferential votes for the point system in Student Council elections, if the proposed change from class to dormitory representation on Student Council is passed...
According to Miss Gilmore, the Hare System is more accurate than the point system, which was introduced by Elizabeth Tucker '52 several years ago, and used for the past three years. Confusion which resulted from use of the point system frequently made several recounts necessary, and last year resulted in widely differing figures after each count...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...
Nonetheless, the harem population soon slumped to 40, in eight years was wheedled away entirely. The redoubtably lecherous Hare left to round up another harem, but new laws against slavery stymied him. Ross stayed on to become King of the Islands, a title held today by 23-year-old John Clunies-Ross V (TIME, Sept. 3), thanks to the 999-year charter that Queen Victoria granted Ross...
...Testament prophet. He was brought up in Christian mission schools, proved a brilliant student, and won a chance to study at Yale and the London School of Economics. In 1935 he settled down to his career as professor of native law and anthropology at the Negro college at Fort Hare, in the Cape Province. Full of his Christian-mission teachings, Matthews devoted himself to the gradual improvement of the lot of the black man. He spoke as a moderate. While others were making sweeping demands, he asked only for limited reforms, e.g., to let Negroes with high educational and property...