Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent. Freshmen are assigned to Houses, but almost all of them strike out on "substantial." A few turn their room lights off and on in unison and then rush outside making animal noises, but fail to capture the popular imagination. One day later 1000 students gather in the Square and shout "Jaywalk! Jaywalk!" They then repeatedly cross Mass on the "Walk" signal...
After making money for the first time in five years, the Freshman Jubilee Committee has decided to set up a class fund. Apparently, the $400 surplus will just sit the bank, gather interest, and help pay for another class extravaganza: the 25th reunion...
...committee intends to gather all the information it can about the patterns and effects of grading at Harvard and then release a report on its findings. Once the report is finished-it might take more than a year-the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP) could recommend any changes in present practices, Ford said...
...with gaudy sampans and lined by crumbling warehouses. Into these godowns flows virtually all of Saigon's rice (Chinese control 90% of the nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty...
...giant 84-foot radio dish going into operation this summer at the Harvard College Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will triple the station's power to gather radio waves from distant parts of the universe...