Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London last week by pint-sized, pugnacious Bernadette Devlin in as memorable an M.P.'s debut as any one could remember. Caught squarely in the middle is the government of Captain O'Neill, whose efforts toward reaching compromise and conciliation are considered too little and too late by the Catholics and civil rightists alike-and too much too soon by his increasingly reactionary Unionist Party of entrenched Protestants...
...plots to kill Jubilee Weekend are multifarious. More than once in the short history of this gala affair, a group of disgusted roommates, turned down by all four girls that they knew at Endicott, have sat around late scheming for its demise. Jocks tried to kill it when the Byrds appeared; heads have always stayed away en masse. But no one has really managed to pin down what makes Jubilee so terrible every year. Last year, a series of fortuitous coincidences almost brought the noble tradition down, but alas, they're going to give it one more try this year...
...late spring evening in 1968 (and it's always late in the evening when these plots are hatched); four slightly motley looking freshmen had just returned from the Elise's run. At dinner they had groaned at the Jubilee opening skit and pushed their potatoes around on their trays when it finally came out that the Lovin Spoonful were going to play the main concert for the big spring affair...
...Jubilee Committee to plant that myth in every freshman head. No one felt the urgency to stand in line anymore and everyone waited casually to see if the hometown honey could make it into town that weekend, if their roommates would possibly leave town that weekend, or if the late show Friday night was going to be good...
...late June the administration reopened the issue by calling on Freshmen to explain their role. In the process three Freshmen were suspended. The Seniors in the meantime were being examined about their circular. This resulted in the dismissal of seven Seniors just prior to their graduation. The last movement of any force to protest the injustice of the administration was made by the Seniors at this time. They voted to refuse their diplomas and their parts in Commencement. But when the administration threatened never to give them their degrees if they chose not to accept them then, they capitulated...