Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet lots of people, and the ability to rant glibly about topics of no particular relevance. A lot of people seem to take this line, apparently reasoning that in the first week, blissful ignorance and complete openness make for the best approach. It's probably not a bad idea; there's no better time, ever, to meet people here, but the forced socialization, as it were, tends to create weird, hyper situations. There's a lot of nervous energy floating around during Freshman Week, as everyone gets used to roommates, Cambridge, and the total freedom of college life. Approach...
...spare to run to the Coop or see friends, and your whole world revolves around the Union and the Science Center. It's entirely possible to wake up on a Monday and realize that, for the past four days, you have been working so feverishly you had no idea whether it was day or night, and all that time is merely a monochromatic blur...
...might be a good idea to get to know your senior adviser, since the Yard senior advisers are the Ad Board representatives for freshmen. If you falter academically or otherwise during the year, you will be up before the Ad Board--or rather, your case will. You won't be, since one of the Ad Board's operating rules is that students cannot represent themselves. Upperclassmen are represented by their House senior tutors, freshmen by their senior advisers, so they are your defenders, like...
...comprehensive idea of where to get away in Boston by going to the movie "Where's Boston?" shown near Government Center. Best bets are the North End, the Italian section of the city where pasta and festivals abound, the Aquarium and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The Gardner Museum is most interesting in winter, when baby's breath bloom throughout the skylighted inner courtyard. A replica of a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Gardner houses an impressive collection of Oriental rugs and pieces by Rembrandt, Matisse, Whistler and Sargent. Three days a week it sponsors concerts...
Freedom is also being eroded, he contends, because Government guidelines are trying artificially to hold down wages and prices. Wriston has the intriguing idea that those prices and wages represent an essential form of economic speech, that money is a form of information. Thus, the Government is sore at business because it has been the bearer of bad tidings...