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With the words of warning, the Harvard basketball club took the floor amidst armed policemen, TV crews, and a crowd of convicts in a gym sealed shut with iron bars...
...reason to doubt that--as a quick and intelligent learner--Spence will quickly grasp how best to ensure the Core does not unravel, how to keep the House system strong, and how to set an effective policy on sexual harassment--just to name three important student issues. But amidst all the hoopla of the appointment, the integral role and problems of undergraduates might easily be put aside and forgotten, especially for someone who has not had a great deal of contact with them over his tenure here. In his drive to help graduate students and junior faculty...
...Amidst several outstanding individual performances, the Harvard women's swim team fell to a far better Princeton squad, 91-49, Saturday at Blodgett Pool...
Deep within the bowels of New Quincy, underneath unknowing, unconscious Q-manolds, amidst piles of clutter, a Crimson sports resurgence is quietly taking place...
...write, while holding a more than fulltime job as Librarian of Congress. When The Discoverers quotes Samuel Johnson about writing his dictionary, it could well be referring to its own author; he worked "not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction...