Word: freshman
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...Kenneth E. Lee '89, also of Eliot House, served as council vice chairman first semester last year, and during the spring semester he chaired a council committee proposing guidelines governing free speech at controversial campus events. In addition to his present term, he was a council member during his freshman and junior years...
Harvard has contracted a top architect to explore the possibility of constructing a student center in Memorial Hall for the purpose of housing a freshman dining hall and student groups. The administration still must formalize the plans and solicit funding for the project. If Harvard is planning a bona fide student center, the University deserves accolades. But if the administration only intends to replace the Freshman Union--a mess hall, with underutilized and meager social facilities--that would be a distortion of what undergraduates want from a student center...
Here a decentralized campus life does more to segregate students than bring them together, as students gravitate toward the houses and their stereotypes and stick within the boundaries of their extracurricular peer group. Only in freshman year's randomly-assigned dormitories is Harvard's noted diversity truly reflected. Far from detracting from the house system, as critics fear, a student center would enhance campus life...
JOSEPH KENNEDY--As the heir to what is regarded as the first family of Massachusetts politics, the freshman Congressman won a tough primary fight in 1986, beating out a crowded field of candidates in a bitter campaign where the inexperienced Kennedy was generally considered a political lightweight. Shortly after the election, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics sponsored a week-long seminar for incoming congressmen. Kennedy was described by participants as inattentive, impatient and flippant. After skipping a speech by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Voloker to attend a Boston Celtics Game, Kennedy told the press that "I didn...
Rose Snyder, who ran a 17:48, led all freshman runners. Juniors Romney Resney (17:41) and Tina Lount (17:50) ran fine races to round out Harvard's top five...