Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last enabled me to move into the exclusive ice cream ranks. There were only six of us on ice cream in the whole stadium. But no mattered how lucrative the night got, what really mattered was being there, with the best excuse in the world, short of playing, to attend 60 games a season. Nightly I pleaded with Bowa to lob one to the upper deck before the game began. I would sneak peaks between sales. But mostly I cheered. I was into the works: Billion dollar scoreboard, clapping hands, ear-piercing organ, Mexican hat dance, Hava Negila...
They would do this six days a week, the seventh day being their own--but only until five or six o'clock, when they would teach class or attend meetings...
...survey also shows that 26 per cent of the students doing graduate work chose to attend Harvard schools, while 53 percent of them enrolled either in Ivy League schools, MIT. Berkeley, Chicago, Michigan or Stanford...
...time they graduated, more than 99 per cent of the class indicated they planned to attend graduate school at some time...
...policy has the effect of encouraging people to go about "business as usual" even though it is a holiday, with the rationale that the obligation to attend classes is a serious one. Thus, the policy goes against the grain of religious commitment...