Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refreshing and encouraging to see the College taking a hard line against the final clubs, an archaic cluster of organizations whose divisive impact poisons Harvard's social atmosphere. One of the most disturbing charges leveled in Epps' letter--that the College has been approached by women alleging sexual harassment--is as serious as it is unsurprising. The discriminatory ethos of the clubs, along with their exclusivity, conspire to create an environment which unbalances the relationship between male "hosts" and female "visitors...
...discuss the payment of part-time workers' benefits with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers; its turning a deaf ear to the students who petitioned for the tenure of Associate Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick; its indignation at the mere suggestion of reforming the Administration's archaic and punitive disciplinary board; its utter disregard of numerous outspoken student, Faculty and community requests that it permit students to retain control of Phillips Brooks House...
...recently informed that Harvard's disciplinary body has no student representation. Here at Middlebury, as at most colleges, we have students involved in the disciplinary process. Come to think of it, even my high school had student representation! The sad irony is that the news of Harvard's archaic rules did not surprise me. Harvard's stuffy, pretentious image is not completely unfounded. For years, I have heard horror stories from friends complaining about faculty-controlled administrative committees that just don't understand student concerns...
...number of English translators have stressed the strange and archaic nature of Homeric narrative, which is fair enough; it is strange and archaic, at least to us. But to those who heard it first, thousands of years ago, it must have seemed both familiar and wondrous. Fagles' translations vividly convey for contemporary readers the sense of stories being told aloud...
...think SOME (extremely wise) people take the department seriously," one student says in an e-mail message. "But I do not think the department is taken as seriously as it should be, or by as many as it should. People have archaic notions of feminism such as 'lesbian-butch-male-bashing-etc.' which they also apply to 'women's studies...