Word: construction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of sympathetic students gathered outside Moses Hall, passing food into the building and helping construct the barricades. Inside, offices were "completely disheveled" as the furniture was added to the barricades, the Daily Californian source said...
...CASE against giving Harvard course credit for ROTC training is easy to construct. Instructors in the program hold regular Corporation appointments but unlike their colleagues are selected by an outside body--the military--rather than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Until this fall, security clearances were required for some ROTC classes and despite dribbles of reform, the courses still follow standardized formulae promulgated in Washington. ROTC is essentially pre-professional training for the military and thus does not belong in the curriculum of an undergraduate liberal arts program...
...doesn't involve others in what he regards as an essentially local operation--he works under what he refers to as "a series of disguises." Frequently this only means that he wheels and deals quietly and privately in order to get something for the neighborhood. When he wanted to construct a playground where the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority said that it couldn't be built, he went to the President of the Standard Towel and Tissue Company and offered to name the back yard of his own company after the President if he would allow the children...
...College planned to construct the fence before the school year began, but a steel strike delayed construction until now, Mrs. Bunting said...
...leaders of the regime, asked the crowd at one point if anyone wanted to vote "No" to reject the constitution. Complete silence. "You know, it would help us if you voted No," the speaker said. "Then we would have another 16 months in order to construct a new constitution to submit to you. And that new one will be stricter and less democratic than the one we are giving...