Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Relieve Exam Tension. However, as it has in past years, the Quad Wide Howl took place at the Quad, not in the Leverett House Library. While the turnout was smaller this year than in previous years, at least two hundred students attended, not 100. Furthermore, the scream your reporter heard was in fact anguished howling at the full moon, surely a more appropriate reaction to reading period than "B & B or requila." As it does every year, the Howl took place on the penultimate night of reading period, not last week...
September 28, 1969. As a high school senior, they told me all about the greatness of Harvard athletics. The first college sporting event was a Harvard crew race. "Athletics for All." Winning traditions. Famous athletes and coaches. I heard it all. But no one ever talked about the Indoor Athletic Building. Today I saw it. The IAB. Surely, someone is kidding me. This must be the annex to Cambridge High and Latin. It is bad enough that this building exists. It is worse that I am inside it. It is appalling that I am here to take something called...
...famous schools, the shocks have been cushioned somewhat by hefty endowments and hordes of solicitable alumni. "It's not as if 100 Princetons have closed," notes Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, referring to the schools that have gone down the drain in the past several years. In gravest danger are the small, unselective liberal arts schools: with tiny endowments and few Government research grants, they lean on tuition for 80% or more of their revenue. Unfortunately for them, that prop will soon begin to wobble. With the great postwar baby boom petering out, the number of 18-year-olds...
Says Vanderbilt's Heard: "Fifteen years ago we did not have a lawyer on the staff. Now we have three full-time attorneys and a heavy outside legal bill." Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, adds: "Every time the Federal Government comes up with a bright idea for a new regulation it helps run our costs up through the ceiling." Hesburgh, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, joins many of his peers in criticizing the federal push toward minority faculty hiring: "There are so few that we end up bidding against...
Alfred Kahn, outspoken head of Carter's anti-inflation program, reflecting on his days as a dean at Cornell University: "You may have heard that a dean is to a faculty as a hydrant...