Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College occasionally sends emissaries out Rochester's way--usually professors who speak on their specialties, to show alumni that alma mater is putting their contributions to good use. "We get big names sometimes, like Reischauer and Fairbank, but who the big names are changes from year to year and each year every community wants those people," Trueheart says...
Smaller cities, like Rochester (population 300,000 or so), fall uncomfortably between--they have too many high school students and alumni to ignore, but often too few to warrant extensive ministrations from Cambridge. "It's unclear whether we're considered part of the big Northeast area or the boondocks--I guess we're the middling boonies," says Harry P. Trueheart III '66, chairman of the schools and scholarships committee of the Rochester Harvard Club...
...fall of 1981 Rochester may be in for some big-name visitors indeed, names like Bok and Rosovsky. Peter F. Clifton '49, executive director of the Harvard College Fund, says Harvard's $250 million, five-year capital campaign is tentatively scheduled to "kick off" in Rochester then, with a big dinner for local alumni and top brass from the University...
...freshman from Lesley College, Linda J. Maleros, said yesterday she spends about half an hour a week walking around construction. "I won't come into the city unless I have to. It's one big rush and you're always being pushed around...
That's about it. The irreverence is not very sharp and not very frequent. One wonders why all the rabbinical groups are up in arms--only a few jokes about big noses and one very funny stoning scene would stir the yarmulke off the most orthodox Jew's head. More telling is a five-minute satire of the entire history of the early Christian church. Having chosen Brian as the true messiah at a sort of marketplace for prophets, several followers start interpreting his actions. Within minutes they have split into different sects, unable to agree why Brian has left...