Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enjoy the attention. It'll never happen like this again. And don't let anyone rope you into working or comping (a fancy word for competing, or trying out) for 100 different groups if you don't want to. There's a chance much of your undergraduate career will center on some organization, but you'll have to find out about academics here before you'll know exactly what you can handle. At Harvard, it really is impossible to be head of the Student Assembly, the Advocate and the orchestra and still maintain straight...
...Catholic Student Center: servers of big spaghetti dinners. The Catholic Center sponsors get-togethers throughout the year, and they're generally enthusiastic...
...looked at Harvard's administrative structure as a combination of the features of two unforgettable buildings, the Science Center and Memorial Hall, you wouldn't be far off. The University bureaucracy has in the past decade acquired the streamlined, ultramodern but still sprawling look that characterizes the steel-and-glass Science Center. But to students who need something from it or, more often, are forced into its corridors, the Harvard administration continues to share the Byzantine complexity and grotesque illogic of Memorial Hall...
...your gaze becomes glazed like the Wild Man of Borneo, your feet almost automatically head for Lamont Library, you don't think you have even a few moments to spare to run to the Coop or see friends, and your whole world revolves around the Union and the Science Center. It's entirely possible to wake up on a Monday and realize that, for the past four days, you have been working so feverishly you had no idea whether it was day or night, and all that time is merely a monochromatic blur...
...changing personal finances make you initial plans for paying your term bill unfeasible, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, usually knows the best program or method of financing your education. Gibson is a friendly face in the Holyoke Center wasteland, and more helpful than the Financial Aid Office underlings, who will throw every rule in the book...