Word: fox
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...examining and updating the Comprehensive Plan for the Undergraduate House system this year, a special review committee under the guidance of John B. Fox '59 dean of the College, is taking a close look at a variety of issues. While most of these topics are well-known to students--housing lotteries and interhouse transfer policy, for example--the masters committee is also analyzing one relatively mysterious issue that has a considerable effect on House living...
...fierce reaction to the plan proposed by then-first year Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 in retrospect seems to be appropriate for campus newspaper parodies. Widely circulated petitions and vocal demonstrations by Quad residents aimed to quash Fox's plan--formally known as the Comprehensive Plan--to change from the system which housed some freshmen in the Quad, and placed more than 100 sophomores affiliated with River Houses in entries in Canaday Hall...
...Fox now demurely describes "a very intense discussion" in the spring of 1977 surrounding his proposal to have all three-year Houses and a unified freshmen year. But others candidly recall 1977 being a trial-by-fire first year for Fox, who not only proposed the controversial restructuring of College living arrangements, but also ordered a curtailment of hot breakfasts in the Houses, a decision he subsequently reversed...
...Harvard does listen more to its alumni than to its students," Mealy said of the newly formed alumni group. Members of that group met with John B. Fox '59, dean of the College, to discuss the status of gay undergraduates, and have helped to fund some of the GLSA's efforts...
When dining out, a fur coat is a fantasy necessity. Fendi's one-of-a-kind Croiset Norka fox ($75,000, from Neiman-Marcus) would do nicely, but a "full-length sweep of splendor" made of Russian snow lynx bellies ($125,000, from Sakowitz) is more tasteful if less carefree. To stay svelte, anyone would love Heartmate, an electronically controlled aerobic exercise bicycle ($4,000, from Abercrombie & Fitch). The avid pedaler can listen to music, AMFM, or view television on the machine's console, while monitoring digital read-outs of mileage, heart rate, calorie expenditure and countdown timing...