Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miss Hardwick notes that when Hawthorne wrote his great parable about men and women in America, The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne decides to make a lonely stand against Puritanism and hypocrisy, Mrs. Hawthorne read it and said that she liked it, but "it gave her a headache." In a sense, that is where we are still...
...letter sent by Dean Epps to Miss Katherine Moss, Vice President of Harvard-Radcliffe S.D.S., makes it clear that Harvard may use its disapproval of the campaign against Herrnstein as a reason for denying facilities for the S.D.S. National Convention against Racism. In our opinion, and, we feel sure, that of many other faculty members as well, such an action would be an ominous act of political repression, and one without precedent in Harvard's history, as far as we know. Nor do the other reasons mentioned in Dean Epp's letter (that students are still on campus...
...France in 1968, a high school teacher named Gabrielle Russier fell in love with one of her students. He was 17 and thus legally a minor. His parents invoked the law to thwart the affair, at one point having Miss Russier arrested and even sending the boy to a sanitarium. After several months, Miss Russier took her own life in desperation. The episode became a cause celebre in France and the subject of at least three books...
...based may often have been cheap and false, but sometimes it was not. Like a popular song, like a mass-printed poem, like a B-movie, it at least provided something to dream about; in regard to dreams, something is always better than nothing. We will remember and miss the studios in the same way we do all of our lost dreams: ruefully, a little shame-faced, but with a bittersweet, nostalgic affection...
Harvard's hockey team combined a miss-the-open-net offense with a non-existent defense to end its 16-8-1 season on a sour note Saturday night, falling to U.N.H...