Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talked to agreed was the importance of maintaining a transfer program. None regretted having come to Harvard and all felt there are benefits to having gone to more than one college that aren't available to students who've gone one school for four years. Barton says, "I'm glad I came here with the perspective. I did, from a small, less self-conscious school." Her sentiments are echoed by Mina Carson, also a senior in Currier House. "I'm awfully glad and have been glad ever since I came here that I didn't come here freshman year...
Daly said he would be glad to provide some money out of his office's budget, and added that "to my knowledge, a reward of this kind has not been offered by the University in the past, and certainly not in the last few years...
...with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." After the ritual sacrifice, the writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." That is more than the bottom...
...Radcliffe senior will say, "I was glad I lived in the House for two years but tired of superficial dining hall conversation. Adams House was very cliquish and I wanted to get away from it," while a Harvard senior will explain that he lives off campus "because people are monsters. A large group of people is just a large group of monsters. And I just prefer relating to monsters in small groups...
...protest against the SWP-YSA influence on the conference. "Don't play us as fools...we know what you're trying to do to us," they tell the conference. "Get off the bus, Maceo. You've got to come home," they shout at Dixon. However, the conference is glad to get rid of people who, as a tall skinny black wearing a huge leather hat says, "won't discuss constructive programs." But the black third world coalition charges that they were intentionally left out of the planning for the conference, even though they offered to help organize...