Word: severities
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Students have bicycles at Harvard in order to get to classes from distant river dormitories with maximum speed. The effectiveness of this mode of transportation depends heavily on using Quincy Street northbound. Else Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg become as isolated as a contagion ward. To cycle north on Prescott Street and then head south again to get to the right points on Quincy would indeed be an unlikely maneuver...
Times arise, however, when the departments seem to lose interest in the Overseers. Author Walter D. Edmonds '26, a former Overseer, recalls with amusement frustrating attempts to hear several English professors. Warren House sent him to the wrong room, to classes that weren't meeting that day and finally to courses that were having guest lecturers. Edmonds was told a certain professor was in Washington, only to see him an hour later on the steps of Sever. "It is much easier," Edmonds concludes, "if you offer to lecture in place of the professor, since he is then certain...
Charging undergraduate organizations for the rehearsal use of College buildings may be justified, but permitting exemptions for some and not for others don't quite make sense. The Glee Club, the Band, and the Orchestra use Sever and Sanders Theatre without charge, while everyone else must pay for the evening lighting, heating, and janitor service...
This cool reception points up the absurdity of the UN decision, which reversed a 1946 resolution calling on all member nations to sever diplomatic tics with Spain. It may be true, as the United States delegation maintained, that the ban was pointless anyway, since diplomatic relations do not imply approval of a regime...
...Having classes in a College building," Robbin said, "is the best way to escape paying high fees in Cambridge and Boston." He emphasized that students who begin the series of classes in Sever Monday will draw other things as well as naked girls...