Word: stern
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...early settlers of this land are generally recalled as stern, religious men who worked six days each week and prayed intently on the seventh. While there is some truth to that idea, Cantabrigians have never been boring. One orator remarked on the city's 250th anniversary, "Cambridge of that day cannot have been the dull, prosaic place we sometimes fancy when we think of a Puritan town. Life was varied by the excitements and perils of frontier life, mingled with the pomps and the crimes of a type of society now passed away." And politics, sport, society, culture--with more...
...some of the original settlers, including Dudley, remained, and operated a local government--the first town records include a stern warning to citizens to keep their property in "good and sufficient repair." It also lists Cambridge's first criminals--Knox, of Watertowne, who apparently cut lumber in the town, and Goodman Kinsbury, also of Watertowne, for "encroaching the bounds of this town...
While Jackson and Jane Bock '81, president of the Asian American Students Association and a summer representative to the committee, agreed that the committee took too indirect an approach this summer, Skip Stern '81, a member of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life and the third summer student representative, said yesterday he found the committee's progress "reasonable...
...Stern, however, added that he thought there should be more non-Third World students on the committee, saying, "It certainly would not hamper the committee to be larger...
...stern disciplinarian. If you cut classes, for example, you had to take study hall in his office at 4 a.m. You had to be there waiting for him when he got to work. Nobody wanted to do that. He was frightening. He was the boss, the main man, the leader. You looked forward to getting away from him. Every time I got called to the coach's office, it was, "Oh, damn, what did I do? I didn't do anything, did I?" And then he'd just want to say goodbye before I went home...