Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more the Shadow Faculty adjusts to each community the more difficulty it will have implementing its goal of "starting from the beginning." It will be impossible to avoid altering research programs to make them more attractive to a school system...
...refreshing and controversial change. There, amid the tomes of the all-male sanctum, you can view three exhibits: "A $300 million Federal Project Brings Death to the Everglades National Park." "Ladies and Liquor Cause the Demise of the Giant Redwood Trees," and "Folly Floods Grand Canyon." Come early and avoid the rush...
...accept the senior decay as normal, and even as healthy. "It wouldn't be Harvard if more than a few boys devoted their greatest amount of attention to athletics," says one coach. Recognizing the necessity for outside interests, Barnaby keeps only loose demands on his players in order to avoid binding them down...
Fencing and skiing demonstrate an equally scarce participation from upperclassmen. It is these individual sports, which offer less rigid training schedules, that seniors avoid. In fact, football, soccer, hockey, and baseball teams all have a large jump in lettermen from the sophomore to junior year. These sports also have junior varsity teams that serve as training grounds. Yovicsin, a firm believer in experience and careful play, arranges for Harvard to have more junior varsity games than anyone else in the league. He never has more than five sophomore regulars on his teams, even with the two-platoon system...
While the CRIMSON warned the freshmen to avoid "class politics," it also remarked that "it is one of the prime duties of every college man to become well versed in the great questions confronting this nation today and by so doing to fit himself to meet those questions squarely." Shortly afterwards committees were formed to work for the three major presidntial candidates, President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt '80 and Governor Woodrow Wilson...