Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raising the drinking age above 18--something the Legislature tried to do last year--is an idea whose time has passed. Eighteen-year-olds are considered old enough to vote and fight abroad. It is incongruous to us that while, on the one hand, they are expected to be on military call, they are not able to walk into a bar and have a drink...
January 21, 1970. Today I saw my first "Boats" final. Eighteen questions, choose four. If I remember correctly, question 7 asked you to spell Magellan correctly. I wondered why the class list of "Gas Stations" was identical to the eligibility list for the varsity football team. And yes, walking into Memorial Hall for Paul Freund's no longer given "Legal Process" (believe me, a gem), I looked around and actually thought I had walked into Dillon Field House by mistake. As athletes often quoted about the work load at Harvard, we like to think of ourselves as directly responsible...
...Stones have always been more of an album-oriented band--the classic Exile on Main Street, probably their finest, produced only one top twenty hit ("Tumbling Dice") from eighteen songs. And although "Honky Tonk Women" remains the prototype for a rock'n'roll 45, singles for the Stones have always been throwaways...
...such luck. I rather doubt anyone's claim to worse seats than ours at The Game on Saturday. Though it consisted of seniors only, our group was awarded seats in row "B", roughly eighteen inches above sea level. Moreover, these seats were at the 40 yard line: had they been hear the end zone, we might have been afforded at least a worm's eye view of some of the action. As it was, apart from an occasional glimpse of Joe Restic, we saw nothing but second string backsides...
...anything less than the national rate of inflation, to compensate those who work in them at levels commensurate with their skills. And these assaults of a fiscal nature will only be abetted by inevitable demographic curves. Within a dozen years there will be just about a million fewer eighteen years old in America than there were three years ago. The competition for potential college applicants will increase dramatically, and no institution will be immune. For even those universities whose colleges will still attract a greater pool of applicants than there will be places in a class will feel this shrinkage...