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...light bulbs, and I said nothing. Then it came for my roommates’ food, and I said nothing. Now it’s coming for my bathroom, and I have to say something.Campus activism in Cambridge has taken many forms through the years: Those brave young viri of 1961 confronting President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 over his decision to remove Latin from their diplomas (“Latin, Si! Pusey, No!”); their successors, eight years later, occupying University Hall (“Fight! Fight!” they yelled, calling for ROTC?...
...sleep, don’t eat right and suck face like there’s no tomorrow, then come to class to inject your fellow more puritanical classmates with your pestilence. By treating illness as just another challenge to overcome you allow sickness to smolder in your bodies, spewing viri like smoke into classrooms for weeks...
...much of the magazine's manner and content retain the tone of cultivated nostalgia that one expects to find there. The latest issue carries a full page picture of the last day of all-male study in Lamont, fringed with a mournful black border and captioned "Sic Transit Gloria Viri." Bethell like his predecessors pounds out for every issue an anonymous column of donnish humor called "The College Pump...
...Viri. Demobbed, Haldane took a post as a lecturer in biochemistry at Cambridge University. He also took another man's wife, Writer Charlotte Franken. When he had to pay ?1,000 damages as corespondent, the university asked Haldane to resign. He refused. He was called before the Sex Viri* and fired. Haldane appealed, and a special university court upheld Haldane in his contention that a professor's private life is none of the university's business. Then Haldane and Charlotte Franken got married...
...Freshman class who pass their first undergraduate exam-hurdle are identified with the most far-flung and cosmopolitan association of college alumni in the world. It is very typical of the Harvard system to class a man as part of Harvard, as of that controversial genus harvardi viri, long before the awarding of the degree. It is typical of the alumni setup at Harvard, which is, in every way, mature, highly sober and reflects the conservatism of the alma mater...