Word: informality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might as well know. You'd see it soon in my face if I didn't tell you. I am no longer the Vag I was; I am utterly unmanned. I have just been to class. Worse than that, I have, as a glance at your watch will inform you, been to a nine o'clock class...
...stated that "The purpose of the newly-formed committee is to inform Harvard students of NSA's function and operation with an objective of having Harvard reaffiliate with NSA." He hoped to accomplish these aims by distributing information on NSA throughout the College. This information will be in the form of a brochure, written by the Committee...
...publication of Mrs. Larkin's letter on housing discrimination destroyed another illusion: that NSA's work on the racial integration issue "does not directly affect Harvard." The Student Council might inform PBH that NSA has in its files accounts of the means used by other northern colleges in dealing with discrimination in its more subtle forms...
...make matters worse, the amendment has been publicised only in the local (Cambridge) newspapers. No attempt has been made to inform Harvard authorities, and Harvard University police have been left completely in the dark as to the complexity of the problem. Harvard students, who for the most part are unaware that local newspapers exist in Cambridge, have therefore never been informed of the amendment, much less the original ordinance. This is particularly true for new graduate students entering in September. Cambridge police privately acknowledge the unfairness of this lack of communication and feel that students should be informed...
Enterprising students who telephoned Cambridge police were informed of the "odd-month, odd-side" amendment and were instructed at the time to "ignore all posted signs since they are superseded". They did is directed, only to be dismayed the following morning to find their cars again tagged. It seems the police had failed to also inform them that posted rules again go into effect after 6 a.m. and should no longer be ignored after that time...