Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month saved enough fuel to have some left to dispense on the Memorial Day weekend. There were indications that motorists were curtailing driving a bit too, and in California preholiday freeway traffic, after a sharp drop, was still about 5% below normal. Across the nation, airline, train and bus travel boomed...
...sorry, this is a charter," the student driver said as he slammed the Harvard shuttle bus door in the face of a couple of wet, Quad-bound students last week. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, could only smile faintly to his precious bus cargo, a group of influential Harvard alumni known as the University Resources Committee...
Athletic Director Jack Reardon met the bus in front of Blodgett Pool to begin a tour of the Soldiers Field facilities. We had just come from Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard, where the committee had heard a group of student actors sing selections from a Gilbert & Sullivan show. The need for increased funding for the arts (i.e., the "pitch") preceded the entertainment...
...passed by Soldiers Field on the bus ride back to the Yard, Reardon told the sad tale of how the oldest concrete stadium in the country is in danger of being condemned. An architectural engineering study has revealed weaknesses in its support system, and funds will have to be raised to prevent its decay and demise. Reardon told the committee that "parts of Baker Field at Columbia have been condemned, and it's very embarrassing to a school (not to mention its athletic director) to have it happen...
...bus ride back to Johnston Gate, I tried to make sense of what I had just experienced. So this was how it felt to be an influential alumnus of Harvard College, to rub elbows with a Winthrop, a Chase, a titan of industry or a baron of the financial world. Soon I would be entering their world and their value system; the thought made me feel uncomfortable for a moment. It was a feeling similar to the one I had when the driver couldn't let the Quad students on the bus and out of the rain...