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Students throughout the year tried to get the University to change the date, writing 3 petition to President Bok, among other actions--but to no avail Harvard officials said that Jewish legal authorities had told them that it is acceptable for stu- dents to attend Commencement ceremonies after attending morning holiday services. They did promise, though, to make every effort to make sure such a conflict did not arise in the future...
Representatives of Response--whose office is in Lowell House--visited dorms. Houses, and other organizations this year, and next fall. Reiss says, the group hopes to give presentations to faculty members as well, because these people may be "in contact with students who might want to avail themselves of the services of Response...
...true that Nixon chose not to avail himself of the impeachment process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically, economically and emotionally by a protracted impeachment process, redound to Nixon's discredit...
William Kruskal, dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, said yesterday that Chicago made several special offers in an attempt to retain Rubin, but to no avail...
Bernal protested the decision, but to no avail. The Crimson camp was feeling very frustrated. "What could we do?" asked Co-Captain Courtney Roberts. "We could just use that anger in the pool." At the time, Bernal said that the disqualification could act as "a double-edged sword," equally capable of helping or hurting the team's morale...