Word: flock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anarchy, or something very near to it, has been a way of life at Harvard since 1969, when the school's Undergraduate Council put itself out of business. Lacking a student government, the droves of high-school council presidents who every year flock to Cambridge have had to content themselves with a system of student-faculty advisory committees--a system that grants students no real institutional power, and only the most deferential voice, in the affairs of the Colleges...
...afternoon progresses and classes end more students flock to the river, and Harvard beach looks more and more like Fort Lauderdale on College Weekend. And the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, from wonk to human being, has commenced...
...railroad station where Teddy Roosevelt happened to be in 1901 when he learned that William McKinley had been assassinated and he was about to become President of the U.S. Spectators clustered around the most hazardous stretches of the river, like the Spruce Mountain rapids, just as auto-racing fans flock to the most dangerous turns...
...lived apart from his first wife for much of his life. He preferred to lead a flock of people deeply attached to him. His second wife was one of the Walter sisters, Jean, whom he married less than two years before his death at 80. She was the model for Delia Street. Sam Hicks, an all-round outdoorsman, also devoted his life to Gardner; he was transmogrified into Paul Drake. This nucleus was joined by a large assortment of pretty women and hunting pals. They sometimes camped out in the desert, especially in Gardner's beloved Baja California...
...diversity of Harvard is something the liberal arts colleges can't match and state universities can't afford, and so it should be prized, says Kiely. "But it has to be admitted that there is a penalty, and part of that penalty is paid by undergraduates who tend to flock to the more obvious fields and find themselves in crowded lecture rooms being taught by grad students rather than these more specialized fields where the instruction might be very, very close and personal on the part of the senior faculty because they don't have so many students...