Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These taggings by the city are inevitable under the present law, but it does seem unfair that students who collect four or five University tickets in this manner are liable to disciplinary action by the Dean's Office. Harvard need not be responsible for providing parking space for its students but it should not take it upon itself to enforce Cambridge ordinances on non-University property. Above all, the Administration should give up punishing parking offenses against the city with such academic niceties as "parking probation...
Individuals, meeting in a non-political manner, can do more to raise the living and working standards of the peoples of the world than a political body, according to the international head of organized labor...
...fictitious Harvard President Henry L. Cabot was quoted as defending the University in the following manner: "Harvard University has not sought historical precedence in the past. It will not do so in the future. The strictures on current practices are well and just. We assume that if his censure produces the results he hopes for, his fine old college will resume 1782 as its date of founding. Harvard will again be first...
...good horse. When he returned, he announced to the astonished neighbors that he had joined the Roman Catholic Church, and since there was no church of that denomination any nearer, he could stay at home Sundays from now on." Other members of the family adapted themselves to the manners and morals of the day with equal resourcefulness. Cousin John Rand, a fashionable Victorian portrait painter and the inventor of the collapsible paint tube, was a fine figure of a man. "He stood an even six feet, four inches; his wife did not quite reach five feet. Fashion decreed that...
...charming young lady of 17 years. From New Canaan, Conn., Holly Carleton was selected over the other four finalists in close balloting at Winthrop House Saturday night. The choice was based on poise, personality, and general appearance. The judges were particularly impressed with her quiet modesty and pleasant manner...