Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once we are compelled to recognize Harvard's venerable past and accept it as such, we must then look at its present. Do we choose the approach of Harvard's faculty and allow inertia to paralyze our minds and our motivation, or do we discard the indulgence of self-admiration that seems to grip the University today...
...Roman Catholic religious order, the Clerics of St. Viator, agreed in that same year to allow the Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., a nonprofit real estate developer, to build 20 two-story buildings with 190 apartments for low-and moderate-income families on 15 acres of its property. The village board blocked the deal by refusing to rezone the site for multifamily residences. The M.H.D.C. and three blacks eligible to live in the project sued Arlington Heights on the grounds, among others, that the refusal to rezone was unconstitutional racial discrimination...
...kind of honor that many graduates of West Point [Dec. 27] often display is one of the most reprehensible aspects of that institution's mores. In Viet Nam, I have seen an otherwise extremely competent squadron commander (West Point graduate) allow an extremely incompetent troop commander (West Point graduate) to continue his command so that he could accumulate his six months of combat command duty. This while his incompetence was killing young American soldiers...
...countless hours of discussion among students, faculty, Masters, and administrators. With the weight of the many diverse arguments in mind, it seems appropriate now to come to a decision and to take steps to resolve some of the issues at hand. To fail to do so is to allow what has been recognized as a patchwork system to continue indefinitely, and to attempt indefinitely to meet core problems with piecemeal solutions...
...consideration of three-year Houses at the Quad must allow for the problem of timing. Because of the small size of the senior class now residing in the Quad Houses (a total of 227), the number of sophomores to be assigned to these Houses, were the plan to be implemented this year (1977), would be scarcely more than the number living there now. (At the present time there are a total of 394 sophomores living in the Quad Houses. Were there to be a conversion to three-year Houses, an estimated 397 sophomores would be assigned to the Quad Houses...