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...Harvard lost to some extent its ability to "keep out of it" in February 1972 when, following an unfavorable court decision, environmental groups looked to the University for a commitment not to sell its land to Con Ed and to fight any attempts to take it by eminent domain...
...persistence of the Radcliffe corporation provides a rationale for Harvard to dismiss any issue pertaining to women in the university -- be it equal admission, money for athletics or equitable faculty and staff hiring -- with the claim that such matters are not urgent or are out of Harvard's domain...
...have the power he is supposed to have, nor is the glorious burden quite so appealing as in the advertisements. He sailed the evening waters of the Potomac River with only one aide. He went to Camp David alone on a rainy night. His lone excursion into the public domain was to the deck of an aircraft carrier, safe from doubters. The biggest White House event of the week was the dinner on the South Lawn for the P.O.W.s, a reassuring evening of mutual tribute to the old days of courage...
...addition, students want Carpenter Center to incorporate such things as print-making and life-drawing, traditionally the domain of the art school, into its curriculum as courses for academic credit. In the past, painting and ceramics courses have been diffused throughout the University as extra-curricular House activities...
...screamed the middle-aged man from one of the bridges over Boston's Charles River. "Get those broads off the water!" The young women, smoothly stroking an eight-oar shell down the waterway once considered the private domain of the hallowed Harvard crew, are used to such abuse. Ever since Radcliffe recently organized its first rowing team, the oarswomen have had to endure sniggering as well as a more serious problem: lack of financial support. No matter. Women's rowing has not only been launched as a national sport, but it is scudding along at an astonishing pace...