Word: viri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...