Word: clock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters are frank to explain that the eight o'clock rule exists specifically to prevent drinking, orgies, and general brawls in the Houses. In an overly protective way, the University has thus assumed the role of a tacit temperance league...
...seen by his victim-none other than Track Great Jesse Owens, who burned up the 1936 Olympics. Balding and 30 Ibs. heavier at 46 than in his running days, Illinois Youth Commission Member Owens raced down a flight of stairs, nailed his quarry in roughly 100 yds., failed to clock his own time for the dash...
Some chaps insist on speaking English before 10 o'clock coffee; for them there is still much to do. Philhellenics (there are many) can meet at Harvard 1 to hear Professor Wade-Gery's views on the Greek Renaissance and Archaic Greek, History 106. And next door in Harvard 3, Professor Pipes pre-dates the "We will bury you" era with History 155, Russia to the end of the Eighteenth Century...
Occasionally (although not always at 10 o'clock) everybody thinks about society. For those whose time is now, there is Social Relations 180, Social Pathology and Social Control (Emerson H). Here, T.M. Mills considers delinquency, suicide and the like--their cause and their cure. And to the student whose ultimate concern is differently oriented, Professor Fleming presents History 167, the History of Science in America (Harvard 2). The course begins tamely, with Seventeenth Century developments, and mushrooms into the present...
...Nine o'clock is a hardy hour and some of the subject matter is appropriately idealistic. The early-to-bed type, in fact, has a choice of pursuing either the pagan or the Christian mode in his search for the Good Life. Professor Demos in Philosophy 102 (Sever 11) unravels the philosophies of Plato, while Professor Buttrick explores the Old Testament in Humanities 124 (Emerson...