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...common room. In most student suites, more than 15 people is synonymous with sauna. Furthermore, there is a justifiable psychological need to spend one's leisure time outside one's place of study. Partying while surrounded by bookshelves full of Kant and Foucault can definitely put a damper on the mood...

Author: By Josh Feltman, | Title: Hoping for a Social Revolution at Harvard | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...only damper on the festivities came when a group of first-years ran after thedefenseless nature lovers and began hurlingsnowballs...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Naked Students In Yard | 1/19/1994 | See Source »

...economists warned that some Clinton policies could act as a damper on new jobs. Jones noted that many operators of medium-size companies, which have traditionally been job creators, are "close to seething with anger" over proposals the Administration is pushing. Among them: levies on business to finance such programs as job training and health-care reform. Roach called such schemes "nothing more than a thinly veiled hiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking Up Speed: Time's Economists See Healthier Growth in 1994 | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Harvard, however, lost its next two games, and its hopes for a title fizzled with them. The Crimson did win its next three games, but a loss to Yale put a damper on an otherwise strong 4-3 Ivy, 7-3 overall season...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: The Odyssey of a Coach and a Program | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

Access to certain parts of the Yard, like the East Yard, can be denied to students from the West Yard after a preset hour. Some first-years, unhappy with what they perceived as a damper on their social hours, successfully lobbied Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans, to extend visiting hours last fall...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: House Security Goes Hi-Tech | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

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