Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning to organize a woman's final club at Harvard. Our plans are indefinite in that we have no name, no clubhouse, and no rules as yet. They are extremely positive however as to intent. We wish to gather and organize about fifty Radcliffe women from different classes and different houses into a social club for the purpose of getting to know one another a little better. We feel the Harvard environment tends to fracture rather than unite women, and would like to establish a meeting place that would combat that trend. We visualise (eventually) a comfortable clubhouse, with kitchen...
...think it's good. When a student is drunk, I'll just grab his roommate and tell him to take the drunk student home to Mather House or wherever he's going." In winter, he says, the problem is less severe than in the spring, when students gather by the river to drink beer...
...victors who gather the spoils, though, and in the case of the Cantab girls the spoils have included all the fans who had vainly followed the boy's team in hope of witnessing that elusive...
...work of a prestigious group of wise men. "We avoided that from the very beginning, we don't operate that way," Rosovsky says, even though he specifically mentioned creating a "blue-ribbon" panel in his February 1974 announcement. By creating the task forces, Rosovsky says, he hoped to gather as many ideas as possible ("they are one of the hardest things to get") and to develop a broad base of support in the Faculty for proposed changes. The task forces include about 50 administrators and faculty members. "If they agree," Rosovsky says, "it's a good basis on which...
...result of such grievance procedures and the general fear of losing one's job, employees at Harvard are reluctuant to talk for the record about the instances of discrimination they witness. In recent weeks, the Task Force has been interviewing employees in an effort to gather data on discrimination occurring in the work place. These interviews reveal a much wider practice of discrimination than use of the grievance procedure would indicate...