Word: hare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only real excitement in the meet (with the exception of sporadic announcements of the score of the Harvard-B.C. hockey game) was provided by junior Skip Hare in the broad jump. With only one jump left for all competitors, Hare led at 23'3". B.C.'s Dan Burke, however, toped this with a final jump of 23.5 1/2". Undaunted, Hare topped his previous best for Harvard by an inch as he soared 23'6", less than a foot short of Aggrey Awori's Harvard record...
...despite the demoralizing absence of gimpy Bob Galliers, Harvard's broad jumpers won all three places with Skip Hare in first with a 22' 6 1/2" jump...
...hurdles and dashes--and also the pole vault, now that Steve Schoonover is gone. The high jump and long jump are still questions. Junior Jim Coleman has the potential to become a 6'6" or 6'7" high jumper this year. Harvard's three long jumpers--Bob Galliers, Skip Hare, and John Avault--are back this year and could be good, but Galliers and Avault have each been hampered by injuries...
Despite the new president's unusual advantage, the prognosis is gloomy. For one thing, many faculty members resent the fact that Hayakawa was named without the approval of the "president-selection committee"-of which Hayakawa himself was a member. Dr. Nathan Hare, the Negro coordinator of the college's black-studies program, promptly predicted: "Hayakawa will go out faster than Smith. He takes the hard line. We'll be ready for him." Militant students promised picketing and demonstrations if the campus is reopened; they even threatened to call strikes on some of the other campuses...
...spokesmen at that conference personifies the problems that Harvard has begun to encounter. Nathan Hare, special coordinater of black studies at San Francisco State College, recently authored a memo that sets strict standards for a teaching staff ("Any white professors involved in the program would have to be Black in spirit in order to last. The same is true for 'Negro' professors"), specifically excludes the possibility of whites teaching black history ("The white man is unqualified to teach black history because he does not understand it") and finally wonders whether white students should be permitted to take black classes...