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...President, our author continued, described himself as "an idealist, with the heart of a poet." He wrote of his love of wife, family or friends with an un ashamed sentimental fervor that embarrassed some and amused others. Sometimes, the historian wrote, the President substituted a beguiling jargon for a program. The President explained at times that he would carry out liberal and reforming programs along conservative lines of action. He would preach a new morality...
Like a new management team taking over a multinational corporation, Dean Fox made some startling changes in the undergraduate housing system in his first year as dean of the College. Students, caught off balance, responded with a fervor exceeding their reaction to purely political, although less close to home, issues...
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Harvard did not escape last fall's swine-fluvaccine fervor, and the University Health Services (UHS) set up a vaccination program. Seventeen per cent of the eligible Harvard community members took the shots before the program was discontinued. The vaccine appeared to provoke a rare syndrome--producing temporary paralysis--in isolated cases, and federal officials decided to end the mass-immunization effort...
Participants in such programs tend to talk about running with a special fervor, and so do their doctors. "Man was made a two-legged animal because he was meant to use his legs," says Dr. J.V. Shivde, one of Dr. Nequin's assistants. "We don't know what one thing causes heart attacks, but two of the risk factors are inactivity and psychological tension. Jogging is an answer for both. We can't say that exercise arrests heart disease, though there is some evidence that it may. But at least with exercise, if you have a heart...