Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yard, these traditional but mostly fluid divisions have become solid barriers to interaction between the classes. Recent innovations like closing the Union to upperclassmen during lunch, keeping the Union open on weekends(so freshmen can avoid the truma of eating in the big bad Houses), and the now-legendary Fox plan, have turned a de facto separation of Harvard by class into a system not unlike segregation...
...THAT'S ALL pre-Fox plan. Dean Fox took two facts--that the Quad was less popular than the River Houses, and that there were freshmen at the Quad but not at the River--and concluded that no one wanted to live in a House where freshmen were always getting underfoot. He also called to mind the salubrious effects on freshmen of a "unified freshman experience," and herded his youthful charges into the relative safety of the walled-in Yard. Since the Task Force on Counseling concluded earlier this year that freshmen were better adjusted to college when they lived...
...riding shotgun. To pay for keeping the Union open weekends, all but four Houses have abandoned hot breakfasts. Greatly upset at the prospect of going to 9 a.m. classes without waffles, upperclassmen rose up in unsuccessful protest. Their subsequent resentment was as frequently directed against freshmen as toward Dean Fox...
...Dean Fox said Wednesday that, despite the letter, he does not expect to make a decision on increasing board fees and restoring full breakfasts to all Houses until later this semester...
...basis of a high I.Q. test and a higher shooting percentage for his ninth-grade five fixed up with a minority-athletic scholarship and a battery of tutors, and a summer-in-the-country boarding program to instill a taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC was still Salt and pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White...