Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's more, the Crimson will play without junior running back Paul Connors, who is sidelined with a chipped bone in his ankle. Jon Hollingsworth, coming off a fine second half against Princeton last Saturday, and Tom Beatrice will join quarterback Burke St. John in the backfield...
...Faculty and often dubbed 'Harvard's unofficial historian,' knows he went to the meetings concerning the merger, but confesses uncomfortably, "I don't remember anything." James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, was also around at the time but explains, "The merger wasn't what I was thinking about back then." He was not +alone...
...Marquand and his colleagues to sleep. Only one thing do Faculty members clearly recall about the debates--they were dull. Chase N. Peterson, then Harvard's director of the admissions and financial aid and now vice-president at the University of Utah, says no one was "exceptionally passionate." Back then the Faculty had more passion-inducing issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later. In the following months, as the faculty cowered...
...Looking back, Peterson admits his alarmist views "were never justified." Most professors concur, but nevertheless believe if they had it to do over, they would have moved with the same caution. The Faculty members at the time recoiled from the dangers of what Peterson calls a "precipitous merger," contending that Harvard was not "prepared" for the allegedly grandiose reversals in University tides...
...took the pace out pretty hard and then started jumping it back and forth through the first and second mile. The third time I sprinted out, this kid from Columbia yelled out 'Don't pay any attention to him, he's not going anywhere.' He was right, I wasn't, but I sure was bothering people," Murphy said after the race...