Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing of still one more remnant of gracious living was marked last Thursday when, in response to sparse turnouts, North and South House Committees decided to limit sit-downs to Wednesday night...
...Gracious living, they are quick to point out, is after all a matter of definition...
Cliffies objected to two things about the old system: the inflexible dinner hour, and the fact that fellow students (usually freshmen) had to do the serving. Giles Constable '50, Head of North House, noted yesterday that such meals "sacrifice all the essence of gracious living to sitting down...
...inflexible fashion, Byrd also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering in a coma for four months, Harry Byrd, 79, had seen nearly every political theory he held dear invalidated by the clamorous demands...
Freshman rooms were usually the dirtiest in the college, even when porters vacuumed them once a week. Now that the University has eliminated this service, conditions have gone from bad to worse. Most members of the class of '70 have apparently declined the University's gracious invitation to borrow vacuuming equipment and clean their own floors. And the rooms, say the proctors sadly, are beginning to look like sties...