Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mansfield: Yes, indeed, I would make a distinction between admissions and hiring. I would make a distinction between those situations where merit is expected and required, and a situation where a community must be filled and sustained. An undergraduate body is a kind of community. If it doesn't have a substantial proportion of Blacks and women, then it is defective as a community. One could easily fill up places at Harvard with 100 people with the highest SAT scores. We've never done that. We didn't do that before affirmative action, and we're not going...
...stepped in to fill the scoring gap. Going into the Yale game, only five players' point totals had reached double digits, with senior Gary Martin leading the team in both goals and points (8-5-13). Harvard's biggest scoring threat, center Phil Falcone, will play spectator at the Beanpot. Falcone has been out of the lineup since injuring his leg during Harvard's December trip to Czechoslovakia...
Reagan does not display the towering ego or consuming ambition that has driven other Presidents. But the White House does fill a personal need of another sort...
...other recent action, five new council members were elected yesterday to fill midyear vacancies in the North Yard and Eliot, Leverett, Mather and Currier Houses...
...must have a certain feminine charm. Most have had acting and singing experience in high school and at Harvard. The selected cast, which numbers 16, is nearly all first-timers to the show, a situation unprecedented in the Theatricals, which usually relies on returning veterans of previous shows to fill the ranks of its requisite chorus lines...