Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington never faced Harvard in a head-to-head meeting last year but the west-coast school did capture the 1977, elite eight Grand Challenge Cup at England's Royal Henley Regatta, in which the Irish National Squad kayoed the Crimson in Harvard's first race...
...soon to be lost. April 12 will by Radio City's last day. The grand old mid-town monument will close its financially-floundering doors, and the next customers who visit the place will be the bulldozers. When they get through, New York City will have a big hole in the ground at the corner of 50th and Sixth. No more huge lines (those disappeared years ago), no more Rockettes, no more block-long candy counters...
About the only thing my town has going for it is a grand, ivy-decked library. On vacations, I always soothe my slightly troubled conscience with the promise that if I don't read schoolwork, I will at least read a few good books. So every year I take out four great books and one of my favorite mysteries, read the mystery and take the others back to the library at the end of the week, never opened...
...forever tempting to spend all of the time available for education reform reviewing the curriculum in search of a grand design, an eternal blueprint. But we must remember that there have been three great enduring advances in undergraduate education at Harvard during this century and none has been the result of curricular reform...
...unfair that the south of the world is never treated to a scene so grand and so breathtaking as last month's snowstorm. After the torm, I sat down at my desk and started to write a letter describing it to my younger brother in Madras...