Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That night at Chapel services, which the College rules required everyone to attend, the Freshmen disrupted the proceedings by constantly scraping their feet, and throwing out firecrackers. The attention of the President became riveted on the Freshmen, but his only response to their outburst was a high rise in temper...
...Harvard, and recalling no previous such incident at the College, Adams finally connected a cause to these unusual events. Said Adams, drawing up all the venom he had for Andrew Jackson who had defeated and slurred him six years before, and then been given a Harvard degree, "the temper of the age" has affected students to consider themselves "in a standing rather of equality than of subordination to their instructors." It was the new age of equality that Quincy cited as the cause. At least in doing this he fingered a deeper reason for the extraordinary events...
...London chemist, Dadd was born in 1817 and studied at the schools of the Royal Academy of Arts, where teachers cited him for his attention, good temper and diligence rather than for his talent. By the time he was 25, he had begun to paint canvases illustrating old English legends of the "little people"; these early canvases could have been produced by any competent illustrator. But during a trip to the Near East in 1842, Dadd began to have strange visions. After scaling the pyramids and strolling through bazaars, he wrote a friend, "I have lain down at night with...
...like most of my colleagues, recognize that the times have changes and that the old ROTC formula no longer suits the temper of the contemporary university. I for one do not wish to bar the participation of educated young men from this or other universities in the military services. Nor do I wish to diminish the role the military services have played historically in assuring our security and freedom. That is not the purpose of the resolution voted by the Faculty last Thursday. For my part, and here I can speak only, as one member of this Faculty. I would...
JOCK SEMPLE is Scottish with an Irish temper, and if you tell him you're from Harvard and that you want to enter his Boston Marathon, he will regard you with an instant hate. This means that Jock Semple has a lot of hating to do because last year about 30 Harvard students decided the famous Marathon was at least worth a laugh, and probably quite a few more will send in entry blanks for this year's event. But the thrill of running in the Marathon is worth the price of incurring Jock's wrath...