Word: extends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calendar change is by no means a dead issue. Even with the early calendar, Harvard could extend Christmas vacation a week into February and save fuel in each of three months. And there is still the matter of a unified all-University calendar--an idea Bok seems to support--and that is usually linked to an early first semester...
Harvard's varsity skaters, coming off an impressive 7-4 away victory over Cornell last Saturday, will try to extend their six-game winning streak tonight when they meet Northeastern University at 8:30 p.m. in Boston Arena...
...certainly look very different. The erosion from both water and wind is very clear, as is the slashing down of forests in many, many areas. Maybe the most noticeable thing for you would be looking down on the coastal area, seeing how great cities, towns, villages, tremendous housing masses extend to the horizons, spilling over mountains where farms and orchards used to be. But in order to use well, in order to exploit, you also have to conserve...
...works of art, except the cathedrals for which they were sometimes woven, absorbed so much collective labor: to see why, one has only to peer at the density of stitching in one square inch of a tapestry and reflect on the time needed to work a surface that might extend for hundreds of square yards. One man could illuminate a Book of Hours. But the fabrication of a hanging might be farmed out among dozens of looms under the supervision of a master weaver. The fact that one of these entrepreneurs, Nicolas Bataille, who took more than three years...
Although Seth Kupferberg may be correct in his theory about Bok's idea of wanting "to extend to the Houses the sort of centralized, streamlined, standardized efficiency implicit in things like Hall's reorganization of Building and Grounds," the appointment of Professor Vorenberg as Master of Dunster House has not had the negative effect that the theory implies. The Vorenbergs have given a new vitality to the House attacking the inertia of both the students and Building and Grounds. The Master has consistently championed the cause of Dunster House itself, as well as that of the House system...