Word: professors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This enemy, Berlin disclosed in a recent article in Time and Tide, British weekly, is the over-emphasis on social and economic miseries of our times. This gives a sense of guilt to the student or professor who wonders whether he is justified in absorbing himself in the study, "let us say, of the early Greek epic at Harvard while the poor of South Boston go hungry and unshed and Negroes are denied fundamental rights in the deep South...
Toward the end of the eighteen century, students developed the habit of expressing disapproval of the food by throwing it around the room and staging huge class fights. One student was suspended for hitting a professor with a baked potato. If he had missed the professor, it would have been considered part of a normal fight. In 1766, the disapproval took the form of the The Great Butter Rebellion, which was only quelled when the Corporation requested the Royal Governor to read the Overseers' resolutions and enforce them, which fortunately occurred peacefully. Several years later, the Rotton Cabbage Rebellion occurred...
...Collegiate Montaigne Society, although not organized under a Harvard-Radcliffe Charter, has operated within the University for several years. Theodore Spencer, the late Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, once termed it "one of the most encouraging intellectual manifestations in the student body that has come to my attention in a long time...
Harvard's Goethe Bicentennial Celebration draws to a close with a talk by Karl Vietor, Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at 8 p.m. tonight in Fogg Large Room...
Boston's water supply will not go the way of New York's, according to Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, who last night denied rumors that a water shortage threatens the local area. Bryan added that although the Boston water supply is about six inches below normal now, it will probably return to normal by spring...