Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...species of bryophytes (that's what a moss is--a bryophyte--I learned that yesterday), there were only three people in the course. That's a ratio of about 8333 mosses to each person. I can't deal with it. I mean, I wasn't expecting Hum 103, but for me to take a course around here, I have to be able to get lost...
...Loeb has rarely seemed so comfortable as this past weekend. If "Party" was bicentennially in honor of the American musical, it will do honor to its hosts as long as people hum "New York, New York...
Donald A. Gibbs, former assistant professor of Chinese, who started teaching the University of California at Davis this fall, complained frequently last spring about how his course, Hum 132, "Chinese Literature in Revolution," was going. Gibbs says now he believes the problems in the course were rooted in his own insensitivity to changes in student attitutdes over the last few years. When he first started teaching about China in the early '60s, he says, no one in America accepted any aspects of the Chinese revolution as positive, and he spent a good deal of time defending Mao Tse-tung. Then...
Before coach George Ford substituted the unknown Nelson into the game midway through a boring first half, the play had wandered back and forth and was somewhat sloppy. Ho hum, Crimson goalie Fred Herold had made three or four great saves, but that was to be expected of the talented junior. Chris Saunders was moving the ball well behind the Harvard forward line, but few solid scoring chances developed. The crisp passing game Ford would like to see from his players had, for the most part, turned a bit soggy...
...with a stern, approving smile, and I smiled back just as firmly behind set lips, because on important mornings you can forget to brush your teeth, and I wasn't taking any chances. And it came to pass that I entered Harvard, duly taking a folklore and mythology course (Hum 9b) where I read Dune, Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of ecology and political intrigue, for the fourth time...