Word: crucial
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...instance, there is much that might be done to enrich the opportunities available through the less formal academic activities of the crucial freshman year. The reading lists provided freshman as the basis for discussion groups during "orientation week" should provide black students greater opportunity to elect to read and discuss books that bear more directly on areas in which they are interested. A special effort should also be made to enrich the Freshman Seminar offerings. There is precedent for these seminars being taught by instructors with no other Harvard teaching appointment, and we recommend that some Freshman Seminars be taught...
Goalie Bruce Durno saved the Crimson in the last two periods with his crucial stops. With a three-goal lead, Harvard let up noticeably in the final period, continuing its scoring but failing to play tight defense in its own zone...
Crimson coach Bob Harrison kept the team practicing throughout the exam period, something of an innovation for Harvard basketball. He reports the team fit and eager, ready to meet the crucial weekend...
THERE IS, however, one glaring omission in the report's otherwise-tight scheme. The crucial question of student participation in staff selection for the new department has been scrupulously evaded in the report itself, and Dean Ford apparently hopes to guide the report through the Faculty without saying anything too specific about how much voice black students will have in choosing--or rejecting--potential appointees. Informal agreements for "student consultations" have reportedly been arranged, but Ford owes it to the Faculty and to the students to make his position clear here. He should either present a convincing case for excluding...
...Docking Crucial. Thus did four rookie cosmonauts perform the world's first crew exchange in orbit, serving notice to Americans that Russia has not given up in the space race. Jubilant Russians could point to their first manned-flight breakthrough in a long while. By the time the two vehicles separated 4 hrs., 35 min. later, Tass was hailing "the world's first experimental space station." Then Shatalov, Khrunov and Eliseev landed Soyuz 4 safely some 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow, within sight of recovery helicopters. This display of reentry accuracy overcame the perils of the snowy...