Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differences between the Houses are only minor, and it is likely that all freshmen will be happy wherever they land. But for those who feel they would like to express a preferences, the following articles seek to give a general impression of each House, and an indication of each one's particular virtues which may corroborate "substantial reasons" that freshmen have already found for themselves...
...made their first choices for strong reasons and which for weak reasons--one first choice was like any other. The first assumption of the new plan is that only freshmen with strong reasons (Dean Monro calls them "substantial") for preferring a particular House will be sufficiently motivated to express his reasons in a letter to the Committee on Assignments...
Comedians and novelists alike attested tirelessly to the aromatic glories of the Brighton Beach Express and the Gowanus Canal, the beery, cheery heartland of dock-wallopers and sailors' broads and Yiddishe mammas, the wasteland of peeling tenements where a Tree Grew. Brooklyn was where every uprooted native from Al Capone to Barbra Streisand was congratulated on being from...
Disillusion in this situation sets in quickly, and the turnover on the executive committee, the club's ruling body, is extremely high. Among those members who remain, too, are those who privately express doubt that the organization will ever be able to justify its existence by doing more than what one calls "diddley work"--stuffing envelopes, writing letters, lending the Harvard name to worthy causes. (And worthy causes, members point out, are at their weakest position in several years as ways of attracting either commitment or attention.) Only about one-third as many people filled out Civil Rights Coordinating Committee...
Since the Committee has left the definition "substantial reasons" for preferring a House "completely undetermined" Gill said, students do not know express their wishes, or whether they are allowed to make a choice...