Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to express my enthusiasm for the new program of having 260 upperclassmen advisors for freshmen in the Yard. I think it's wonderful that Harvard finally has a formal setting for freshmen to get advice from other students...
...reference to upperclass adviser Arthur C. Kyrianzis '80 as "big brothers" has illuminated two long-standing errors in the informal programs once run by three undergraduate houses that had freshmen. First, we naively referred to our programs directly as "Big Sibling" programs, rather than cleverly divising a more formal cover title like "Students Helping Students." Second, we explicitly recognized that advisers might be of either sex by calling them "big brothers and sisters." Our mistakes and obvious lack of professionalism have now been made clear...
...proposals in writing so he can consider them before 10:30 a.m. meeting with Sadat. Israelis on bicycles pedal breathlessly to Carter's cabin to deliver their response, page by page. For two hours, Carter meets with Sadat, laying out U.S. position, incorporating some Israeli counterideas. Sadat promises formal reply that night, but misses the deadline. American delegation senses more give-and-take emerging...
...travel and expensive recreation; inherited money automatically earns a higher social standing regardless of class; college graduates who are not doing well (earning less than $20,000 a year) emphasize their degrees when claiming status identification; to the proudest group belong those who got rich without much formal education; the welfare and poverty class distinguishes between physically and morally clean and unclean; at all levels of society the most frequently mentioned cause of downward mobility is alcoholism; Americans tend to place themselves in the highest class they can defend on the basis of their material achievements. Concludes one suburbanite...
...committee writes a compromise bill, the proposal will return to both houses for approval before being submitted to President Carter for formal approval...