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...sport, crew epitomizes detachment for the athlete, and for the coach. There are no pop talks, no time outs, no staring down the opposition or huddling with teammates amidst the action...
...Amidst the camaraderie of Spring Fling--"it's like one big hugging party," comments a freshman the inevitable problem of the lack of a feeling of unity in the student body remains apparent. The difficulties stem in part not only from the number of people, but from the structure of the system...
...Amidst its hallowed scenery of wrought iron gates, crawling dark green ivy and Gothic halls adorned by little orange and black seals. Princeton University upperclassmen returned last fall to find the pristine center campus quiet and unchanged from generations past. But on the outskirts of Princeton's territory, underclassmen wake each day to clamoring sounds from campus renovation and construction, as the school's new residential college system gets under...
...initially interfere with these activities. However, it became increasingly concerned to control what was going on as it became evident that the mind altering sessions were ends in themselves rather than part of research in the usual sense of the term Eventually Leary and Alpert left Harvard amidst charges on the one side that academic freedom had been violated and on the other that Harvard had been much too lax in not attempting to control the actions of obviously irresponsible faculty members sooner...
...Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) advanced what was then considered a more element proposal allowing ROTC courses to reapply through existing Harvard academic departments. Wilson was selected from the CEP to read the proposal, which won committee approval amidst much dissention. Half the group seemed motivated by the students' political concerns, while others did look, at the academic side more carefully," Watson says...