Word: fallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS fall, the council's primary task will be facing up to the challenges that it posed last spring. Even as the council began to understand its own importance, it botched its responsibility. The ROTC controversy and the Vega concert fiasco were undeniable screw-ups, but they were the kind of screw-ups we associate with an uncertain beginner. Laudably the council was trying out its wings. A few false starts were to be expected...
...ultimate test, the council appears to have made gains where few would have predicted: This fall, the body has forced students to have a stake in their government. A rise in candicacy declarations and voter turn-out clearly testifies to students' support of an active council, if not indeed an activist...
...said the temptation was always there for an institution like Harvard, which has vast resources but is always hungry for more, to fall sway to the banker's logic and slowly let its academic mission deteriorate...
Nellie Y. McKay, author of a well-regarded study of 20th-century writer Jean Tooter, recently decided against accepting the Harvard tenure offer--made last fall--and will continue teaching at Wisconsin, according to officials from both schools...
...allowed themselves to fall prey to cowardice, to foreign money and to treason are a minority who advocated foreign intervention," the communique added. "In the next few hours, this group will appear before justice, covered with shame...