Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REST of the difficulties with a merger are a good deal more prosaic. How, for instance, can 800-900 Harvard undergraduates be persuaded to move up a Radcliffe? Perhaps enthusiasm for the idea of coed living will carry a few pioneers up to the inferior quarters at the 'Cliffe and the first two male freshmen stuck in a double in Briggs won't know what hit them. But already a number of House Masters sense a large gap between the number of Harvard students who support coeducational living in theory and the number who would be willing to move...
...kinds of housing will have to be worked out though, as well the difficulty of determining which houses go coed and which stay all-male House assignments have always been somewhat arbitrary and when some of the living quarters become clearly inferior that process could cause a great deal more friction than it has in the past...
...group of friends of E. L. Godkin, the first editor of the Nation and a leader in governmental reform, donated $10,000 in 1903 to establish a series of lectures that would deal with 'the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen...
Cooper's puppets perform with great gusto, but in a commedia dell'arte the stage should be filled with action. Too often the stage is held by just two people--essentially a fault of Benavente's play, but a few extras cleverly slipped in would have helped a great deal. Still, in the second act revelry breaks out as the entire cast shows itself for a switching, twisting, joyous denouement...
Even her own contributions to the noise level are beyond her control. People, especially female people, deal with the tension caused by having so many together in such close quarters by talking. The only way to get back at them all is to talk at them. Nicely. Everyone must be nice. There are eight girls in these rooms, Patty and Sally, who are nice, Jane and Tina, they're nice, Sandy and Betty and Linda and Mary, also nice. When one of them gets tired of being nice and would like to play a record very loudly and perhaps scream...