Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the graduation of the class of 1963 in June, Quincy House will lose the generation of organizers, agitators, and manipulators that made it the political center of the College. No longer will the third floor of its new building be one of the greatest smoke-filled corridors in American politics...
...Erica Levine '64, the committee will discuss such changes as allowing 'Cliffies to leave the room for a smoke any time during exams, rather than just during the break, as Harvard men do. The group will also consider improvements in the proctoring system. The RGA will decide which recommendations to present to Kennedy...
...glory that the Kopparberg brought Sweden, mining conditions were appalling. Sulphurous smoke blacked the huts of Falun and killed off all plant life for miles around. The workers' plight in the dark and sooty mines was so bad that a visitor in the 1700s wrote that "no theologian has ever been able to describe hell so frightfully." In the early 19th century, as iron began replacing copper in importance, Stora Kopparberg turned away from the riches of the copper mountain and began the diversification that has kept it alive and thriving...
...Ellerton Lodge, who composed the excellent music of the drama for men's voices to the accompaniment of woodwind instruments, came out from Agamemnon's palace doors carrying a pan of incense to lay on the altar where it might now be lighted with some hope that it would smoke. His foot slipped on the rain-greased altar step and went right through the marble, a canvas flap of which went on fluttering in the breeze until Intermission. His act had great success, but was not repeated...
...industrial chemist, James Harold Wilson was born March 11, 1916, in the heart of industrial Yorkshire, and spent his childhood in a hillside village overlooking the factory smoke of the Colne Valley. At the local council school, he won the first of a series of scholarships that eventually carried him to Oxford's Jesus College, where he was a leading member of the debating society and a cross-country runner. Graduating with first class honors, Wilson remained at Oxford as an economics don until the war, ending up in the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Sir William Beveridge employed...