Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential hopefuls learn one thing from the elections in Great Britain, let it be that they can win a campaign by saying what they feel, not what they think the public wants to hear...
...high school drama student getting passed over for the jock who can bring athletic glory to fair Harvard and dollars into the fund drive campaign? I hope not, for Harvard's admissions standards should not be lowered for athletic prowess at the expense of true diversity. I am encouraged by the agenda of the University Resources Committee, and hope that the equal time it spent studying athletics and the arts is a fair barometer of the relative weight that should be placed on extracurricular activities at Harvard...
...injustice in South Africa. It may take some financial prodding, but the University must be given a moral pinch or else it will continue to help prolong the tragic nightmare in South Africa. For this reason, I urge fellow classmates to support a financial boycott and a mailing campaign to the Corporation until an investment policy which clearly opposes the American corporate presence in South Africa is adopted. Michael R. Eastman '79 Fourth Marshal of the Harvard Class...
...become clear in the last two years that student and faculty opinions on South African investments are not taken very seriously. Unfortunately, the Corporation seems to listen only to the ring of the cash register. Therefore, a financial boycott and mailing campaign seem to be the only options left to those in the Harvard community who care about the University's corporate investment policy and its effects on human rights in South Africa...
...victory was a sweet ending to a long, troubled journey for Owner Harry Meyerhoff, Trainer Bud Delp and Jockey Franklin. They had left the friendly and familiar confines of Maryland tracks last winter to campaign Spectacular Bid at Triple Crown prep races in Florida and Kentucky. As newcomers to big-time racing, they quickly found themselves snubbed by the Thoroughbred establishment. Meyerhoff, a retired millionaire builder from Baltimore, and his wife were not even invited to the traditional ball before the Flamingo Stakes, despite the fact that their colt was heavily favored and indeed won the race the following...