Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...false alarm, there is a second, more theoretical problem with Admissions that the Faulty will have difficulty avoiding. One of Harvard's most conservative but least questioned practices is graduating four times as many males as females from the College each year. That tradition is hard to question as long as Harvard and Radcliffe stay separate and have an inflexible number of spaces in their respective dormitories. But once the two schools merge, the tradition will be very hard to uphold. It is not even certain that Harvard could legally discriminate against female applicants at a four to one ratio...
Talk about the coeducation that is coming degenerates quickly into questions which are now unanswerable. It is hard to distinguish the trivial from the substantive objection, hard even to be sure whether coeducational living will have a major or negligible impact on undergraduates. Many of the reservations reduce to cold assertions of male Harvard's self-interest. One Faculty member compares the merger rather coarsely to "a rich man marrying a poor girl--he had better be pretty sure that he's getting some spiritual benefits before he goes through with it." That spirit has been well hidden...
...Court is set for sometime in April. It is to be hoped that the Superior Court will approach the evidence with more of an open mind than did Judge Viola. Certainly the evidence surrounding assault and battery and possession of marijuana is at best doubtful, and thus it is hard to avoid the suspicion that Collins and his friends were framed. All that has been convincingly proved thus far is that Collins'' group disrupted some classes at Harvard. Two years in prison is too harsh a punishment for that...
Instead she sits alone among a hundred people crammed onto a tiny square of land. Her environment is noisy, yellow, hard, and smells of hotdogs. The most important part of her existence is her body. Is this like the way we live...
Everyone is in the same predicament. It is hard to take responsibility for one's own existence without privacy and without time. It is hard to use even the freedom one does have, for it is hard to realize it is there. The noise of the dorm fills up the spaces and presses in on the people living there, sounds, words, commands--the voice of the public consciousness. The constricted space of plural living is a sign of sorrow. Free, open space is needed for the fortuitous and the unforeseen to occur, for the emotionally neutral and the amplitude...