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Word: expectance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect little resistance from professors" to changes in section policy, Bowersock told the committee; and he may be right. Increased time commitments for professors would be small, especially compared with the recently-passed compared with the recently-passed tutorial reform plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back to the Drawing Board | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

What last Thursday's 'open' meeting with President Bok did most successfully was to point out the serious problems underlying student activism at Harvard. In the first place, the meager attendance was an embarrasing indication of student apathy. How can students expect change if there is so little interest in it? Secondly, in rejecting even basic courtesy, the students who spoke compromised their dignity, and hurt, rather than helped, their causes. Whether or not Bok's comments merited total attention is not the point. By continually interrupting him, and by denying Bok the opportunity to express himself, the students reduced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mock Militancy | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

Passim's price is perhaps its only bad point. The cover charge ranges from $3 to $4.50, depending on the act. You came to Boston for cultural diversity, but didn't expect to pay for it, eh? Well, if you can't swing it, save up or go Dutch. Where else can you get a first-rate concert for under $5 and a front-row seat besides? Passim is definitely one of those places that make Cambridge better than New Haven...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: A Scoop Behind the Coop | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...issues at hand rather than the rhetoric of a few individuals. Should Americans have ignored slavery (or continued to "debate" it) simply because a few abolitionists may have "exaggerated" the nature of that institution? Should we refuse to vote because candidates for office invariably exaggerate what we can reasonably expect them to accomplish. We are asked whether the Coalition has not in fact "exaggerated" claims about racial, class, and sexual oppression in the United States. We are invited to "discuss" rather than "boycott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Response to Government Fellows | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...from the varsity oarsmen, there was a lot of grumbling heard. "People in that boat are very self-critical," stroke Jeff Brown said yesterday. He added that most of the varsity rowers "have gotten through not being stars," so they do not expect things to come easy...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Lights Sweep in Biglin Over Dartmouth, MIT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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