Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housing space--a perennial problem since the Second World War--leaves the College with just barely enough room for the freshman class and makes a substantial number of transfers unthinkable. Describing the dilemma in 1958, Jordan declared that "fully ten per cent of the places in this college belong as of academic right" to transfer applicants who wish to major in esoteric subjects not taught elsewhere or to use expensive equipment unavailable at other colleges. He did not, however, mention a third reason now considered thoroughly respectable by the Committee on Admissions--marriage to a Harvard undergraduate after...
...Aerospace Force becomes the big cheese. There is still an ill-defined line between military projects and work done by the civilian National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Some day soon, the President will have to set up a single, economical space agency. Airmen are betting that it will belong to them...
...limit: twelve miles. British trawler captains who disregarded the Icelandic ultimatum and penetrated within the twelve-mile limit found themselves accosted by the belligerent Icelandic coast guard. The British navy steamed to the rescue, provided frigate escorts for the invading fishermen. Tempers flared, the NATO alliance (to which both belong) was endangered and shots were fired-although mostly blanks...
...knuckle-rapping is not always out of order with a group that can be as pretentious and self-righteous as some of the abstract expressionists. They in their turn have not been notable for their broad-mindedness toward their opposition-to which a legion of first-rate artists belong. "John Canaday," said Realist Edward Hopper in a letter to the Times this week, "is the best and most outspoken art critic the Times has ever had." Added Sculptor William Zorach in another letter: "He is an outspoken and healthy asset to the art world...
When I read this morning that a famous athlete whose name I forget had destroyed the posters of some radical pickets out of fear they might be offensive in the eyes of prospective football players, I was curious to see how certain this campus is that athletes belong above the law and radicals below it. I, for one, am certain simply that the educational level represented in this act must stand as a monument to the faculty of Harvard University, and that the lack of protection for the pickets speaks as highly for the administration. Daniel Eigerman...