Word: arene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lacrosse team is 8-2 overall, a lofty record under most circumstances. However, these aren't most circumstances. The Crimson's two losses--to Penn and Brown--have come against Ivy League foes. Thus, Harvard is virtually eliminated from the league title race...
...excitement was useful--being naked in the Quad after midnight was not a hot idea. "It was a little nippy," said one singer, but "We couldn't do it during the day. We may be crazy, but we aren't stupid...
Finally, when it comes to minority (and especially Black) faculty, the entire American college and university community is in the grips of an intractable long-term supply problem. There just aren't enough bodies to go around. Black students perennially push to see more Black faculty, but almost none of them want to become Black faculty. And who can blame them, when the Sirens of Wall Street beckon so seductively...
Sanger has come to publicize himself giving rice to the starving natives. Mallory replies, "One problem is that the people here don't eat rice . . . The second is that there aren't any people." Sanger, whose career is on the skids, responds glumly, "Even my disaster area is a disaster." Then something amazing occurs. A tractor under Mallory's direction tips over the huge stump of an old oak tree, and water begins to bubble up from the cavity below. First a trickle, then a stream. Soon a broad brown current several hundred yards wide spreads itself north and south...
Daniel Buchanan '89, who has been working with the homeless through Phillips Brooks House, said he joined the rally because "I've been working in a shelter for three years. You really become aware, going there and seeing the same people year after year, that shelters aren't solving the problem...