Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safeguards on Radcliffe voting methods won Radcliffe Student Council approval at the last meeting. Changes in the Student Government by-laws now provide for sealed ballot boxes, voting lists, and assurances that no student may count any part of any ballot upon which her name is listed...
...battles in the Stadium and the infamous dirty joke contests at the Tree have both vanished, as did the 19th century spiked punch tradition. During the war, Class Day itself was submerged. But it has since risen with surprising vigor, and some of its ancient and less decorous traditions may even be revived...
Like many a Harvard tradition, Class Day's origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced by no doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary...
Representatives of ten western European nations signed the charter for a Council of Europe yesterday in London. Agreeing to the charter, which provides for a joint cabinet and parliament, were Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Ireland. London sources reported that Winston Churchill may become the British delegate...
...disappointing performance in "The Tempest" was Thayer David's Prospero, which came as a surprise after his previous work. The fault may be the director's, (or my own, since it is a matter of interpretation rather than ability) but I cannot imagine Prospero as the dry, weary, manipulator that Mr. David makes him. Why shouldn't God, or Shakespeare, or whoever Prospero is, have as much fun as anybody? Since he is responsible for all the goings-on which produce such gaiety, why should he not be amused? Even Buddha smiles. Mr. David's magic-man is stern...