Word: blocks
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...takes days, and sometimes weeks, to settle on a group of people to block with in March of freshman year. But it only gets worse. The geniuses at the undergraduate housing office have a do-it-yourself philosophy regarding these matters. One individual in each blocking group is required to locate a mysterious room hidden in the depths of the Science Center and navigate the HTML and Java of an original computer program designed to compile the database of blocking groups for the office. No computer specialist patrols the room of beeping machines while anxious first-years painstakingly enter loads...
...Size of the Block...
Before the war, the British--who controlled Palestine under a League of Nations agreement--had restricted immigration to Palestine to 10,000 a year in 1936 in an effort to stem the growing conflict between Arabs and Jews settling in the region. They continued to block refugees throughout the war, when Jews wanted most to return to their ancient homeland...
...Levine of Cabot House; Han Ping Davin Chor and Ilyana M. Kuziemko of Currier House; Micah S. Myers and Joseph E. Subotnik of Dunster House; MaryAnn Cockerill, Daniel J. Hopkins and Matthew C. Weinzierl of Eliot House; Ceen-Yenn C. Lin and Rajeev Malhotra of Kirkland House; Eliza C. Block , Gabriella N. Skirnick and Siddharth Mohandas of Leverett House; Max D. Lieblich and Liam P. McAllister of Lowell House; Jennifer E. Ballard of Mather House; Giridhar M. Shivaram of Pforzheimer; Leach, Samantha L. Chaifetz, Meredith J. Jensen and David Y. Oh of Quincy House; and Timothy W. Pepper and Wendy...
...Levine of Cabot House; Han Ping Davin Chor and Ilyana M. Kuziemko of Currier House; Micah S. Myers and Joseph E. Subotnik of Dunster House; MaryAnn Cockerill, Daniel J. Hopkins and Matthew C. Weinzierl of Eliot House; Ceen-Yenn C. Lin and Rajeev Malhotra of Kirkland House; Eliza C. Block, Gabriella N. Skirnick and Siddharth Mohandas of Leverett House; Max D. Lieblich and Liam P. McAllister of Lowell House; Jennifer E. Ballard of Mather House; Giridhar M. Shivaram of Pforzheimer; Leach, Samantha L. Chaifetz, Meredith J. Jensen and David Y. Oh of Quincy House; and Timothy W. Pepper and Wendy...