Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomore year, a pair of freshmen put a match to a wonden cross in the north end of the Yard, behind Holworthy Hall. A crowd soon gathered around it, and while some of to them tried to extinguish the flames, others heckled a Black student who had the bad fortune to he walking past the scene, and shouted their disappointment when the fire finally went out. The two freshmen were eventually disciplined by the College and stated, in a public apology: "We honestly say that the incident was meant only as a prank and sincerely felt that the incident would...
...wasn't interested in, nor did I have the money to be in a final club," Watkins says. "As a Black, it was difficult for me in a number of ways, but not bad. I didn't have any terrible experiences. The world beyond Harvard was more conscious of my skin color than Harvard was," he concludes...
...boys in all kinds of formal and informal situations--jolly-ups were not so bad. I spent one Moors jolly-up evening talking to a shy grad student in biology with a slight British accent. His name was Jim Watson! Another jolly-up brought forth a great group of Harvard med students. After all, we came from a generation whose parents introduced us to their friend's children. Public school girls seemed to handle the stresses and strains of college social life better than the private school girls. That division existed, but did some-what diminish with time. College level...
...freshman week. The Harvard facilities were never open to women. Most of us didn't actively miss sports but we all would have benefited from the camaraderie of some group exercise as we tended to be solitary and intense. We were mostly less than svelte (dorm food was not bad, better than Harvard's famous steam tables) and resigned to our shapes. We knew we were short-changed but there seemed to be no way to make things change...
...characterization of "one crisis after another being a president without authority"--reflect the implicit ambivalence of the presidents themselves. Alberta Arthurs, former president of Chatham college, correctly observes. "We tend to teach our best students to admire individualism rather than the institution. I don't think that's a bad thing, but that makes thing tough for college presidents...