Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem hardly tragic. If the city guarantees the basic financing, some former donors like Exxon and the Ford Foundation indicate that they would again provide special help. Says Exxon's Neblett: "It is important that alternative techniques of education be part of the public schools. The system should adapt and incorporate change." Others are less sanguine. "All you need to do is to look at the problems in other schools to know what's going to happen here," says Math Teacher Keary. "The public schools just don't work for these kids...
...odds are against the Crimson putting together a polished performance. In fact, unless the five sophomore starters adapt immediately to varsity game conditions, it could be a long afternoon for Harvard...
FRESHMEN WILL be the undergraduates who will suffer in Currier, which cannot for architectural reasons adapt as easily as Mather can to overflows. Suzanne T. Nelson, Currier House Secretary, said last week that all but three or four of Currier's 100 freshmen will begin the year in economy doubles or economy triples. In an unprecedented step, ten Currier freshmen have been assigned to Jordan W (a co-op), because, Nelson says, "I had no more beds...
...most efficient in the Ivies. "We will probably have the best pair of ends in the league," he says. Which may be true, but this prognostication depends on the success of one man coming back from knee surgery and the ability of a freshman to adapt to varsity ball...
...respect Karl Marx for setting out the basic lines of socialism," says Kenji Miyamoto, chief of Japan's Communist Party. "But this does not mean that we are absolved from using our own brains in adapting Marx's tenets to the realities of modern Japan." Miyamoto is understating the case. Japan's Communist Party has not only adapted to the realities of a democratic country but has also forced the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to adapt itself to the unpleasant reality of a strong Communist opposition...