Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the positive publicity, it will take nothing short of a Herculean effort by McLaughlin to overcome a pitiful recruiting budget and an inadequate IAB-eyesore. According to well-informed sources, Harvard's total athletic recruiting budget is equal to one-third of the football recruiting budget of another Ivy League school...
...doubt if any city in the state is so impacted by universities," City Councilor David A. Wylie told the committee at Wednesday's hearing. "This is really an effort to stabilize our neighborhoods, to keep our residential areas intact," City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser added...
Moose said last week that the outcome of the Namibia settlement may have an "important bearing" on a U.S. decision to recognize Angola. He said the U.S. is pleased with the Angolans for their effort to get a settlement in Namibia, but he cautioned that Angolan help in achieving a settlement in Namibia is not a condition of recognition...
...back in Harverford, Pa., to have a reunion financed by their student governments. The rumor, strangely, seemed credible--all these people could do was pass resolutions, talk for hours on end to no purpose, and argue about procedure. Nevertheless, 20 Harvard-Radcliffe students thought it worth their time and effort to do the research necessary to prepare reports for each of the eight committees of the conference, and then go down to Philadelphia for the four-day meet...
...worthwhile. The individual committees--on issues ranging from academics to student life to the role of the university in social and political affairs--could have pooled information, come up with a comparative report, offered some suggestions. But somewhere along the line, many committees got lost in the effort to come up with resolutions (calling for divestiture of investments in South Africa, among other things) and neglected to develop a reasoned critique of current university practices along with strategies for student action to change those practices...