Word: decently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Juniors Frank Haggerty in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles and Steve Schoonover in the pole vault look unbeatable. Schoonover, who will be shooting for 16 feet, is the first decent pole vaulter the English will have seen from Harvard in about two decades...
Their solution was to create the Young Women's Christian Association, which was to provide young maidens with a safe, inexpensive and decent place to live and protect them against "the pestilence that walketh in darkness and the destruction that wasteth at noonday...
They had hoped that the heal-in, in which they filled the hospital by accepting an unusually large number of patients, and giving them more intensive care, would dramatize their demands. "We feel that we have made our point -- a decent wage for house officers," one of the heal-in's leaders said last night...
...justification for our request for a higher rate of compensation is that, given the special circumstances under which teaching fellows must accept employment, they are not receiving a decent living wage, another is that teaching fellows' rate of compensation has not remained competitive with those of other teachers in Harvard College...
...founded upon a judgement of relative priorities, and that our petition essentially asks Harvard to reconsider her present priorities in the light of our claims. Because teaching fellows occupy a place of importance in the total program of undergraduate teaching at Harvard College, because their need for a decent living naturally commands attention and because in the matter of teaching fellows' salaries Harvard has fallen below the place of high distinction which she occupies in most of her undertakings, we believe that our request for an increase in salary deserves consideration on an equal basis with most of the other...