Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office that a visitor was told, "President Lowell has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft"). When the Governor of Massachusetts asked Lowell to head a committee to determine whether the patently unfair trial of Sacco and Vanzetti had in fact been fair, Lowell concluded that it had. And when bigoted alumni kept complaining about the number of Jews at Harvard (the proportion had reached 22% by 1922), Lowell publicly called for a quota system to limit it. That was formally rejected by both the overseers and the faculty, but Lowell ) got his way by indirection. He imposed...
...finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN HANCOCK -- one of eight Harvard men, thank you, who signed the Declaration of Independence -- and at the climax a 700-sq.-ft. Harvard logo will be emblazoned on the night sky as the band plays Fair Harvard...
...course, remains proud, if discreetly critical, of his elegant academic republic. Contemplating the spectrum of improvements that might be made, he asks "What doesn't need work?" A fair question, especially since a university's reason for being is to improve and disseminate a thing called knowledge, which can never be either properly gauged or made perfect. Perhaps Harvard's students provide the best measure of their own learning experience. If the heart of a young person's education is to know who he is and where he is going, then the oldest and richest U.S. institution of higher learning...
...when students playing a business game hacked into their opponents' computer to steal inside data. "We never had a meeting over whether it was right or wrong," said one of the hackers. Still, well- informed observers, like Virginia's Rosenblum, himself a business-school alumnus, argue, "It's not fair to tar Harvard M.B.A.s as being set apart from other M.B.A.s in ethical considerations...
...fair, Columbia is not alone in its problems. U.S. box-office attendance for the first six months of 1986 hit a seven-year low of 488.6 million, compared with a mid-1983 high of 599 million. Even with a strong summer, year-end box-office sales are expected to fall below 1985's $3.75 billion, which was nearly 7% lower than...