Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Harvard professors bitterly resented the moratorium, which they felt slowed the progress of their research while scientists from other universities made significant discoveries. An example occurred in the spring of 1977, when researchers at the University of California made a discovery that workers in a Harvard DNA lab said they could have pursued if they had not been banned by the regulations...
...academic institutions are generally less lucrative than industrial or corporate employment, Gibson decided she'd prefer to work on a campus. When she arrived in Boston, she applied for jobs at seven schools in the area, and soon found work at Widener Library. After about 18 months there, she felt she had learned all she could from that jobs and began looking around for something else, preferably a post than would give her a little more contact with College life...
...when he okayed the use of Dumbarton Oaks, the plush Harvard-owned estate outside Washington, for a wedding reception for Rep. John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.), the House majority whip. Despite the fact that large garden parties are bad for the estate's famous tree-lined garden. Bok apparently felt that Brademas--a former Overseer and close friend of "Harvard's Congressman," Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.--could be trusted not to import a pack of restless dachsunds. "We figured, what the heck, it wasn't costing Harvard any money," Bok said...
Most objections to the Fox Plan came from Quad residents who felt an absence of freshmen would change the atmosphere of the Quad dramatically, and that the Quad would therefore lose its appeal along with its freshmen. The difficulty, however, was that some freshmen who used to live at the Quad felt they were missing something by not living in the Yard...
...results of the three-choice system is to make freshmen consider a strategy for getting into a House they like, or staying out of a House they dislike. The lottery application process became reminiscent of the college application process. "Safety Houses," ones which students felt lacked popularity, but which they wouldn't terribly mind living in, were often ranked third...