Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jammed with 190,000 students, the 18 campuses of New York City's municipal university last week looked like 18 Grand Central stations during the height of rush hour. Classes met in auditoriums and converted storefronts, a synagogue and a onetime indoor hockey rink. With surprising fervor, the City University of New York (CUNY) had set out to help break the poverty cycle of young people-both white and black -who graduate with serious educational deficiencies from the city's high schools each year. Under its new "open admissions" policy, CUNY was taking such students despite their academic...
...festivities began a day ahead of time as early arrivals gathered in the Deep River Inn, a bar on Main Street, to shout greetings, swap tales and compare instruments above the din of indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must...
...addition to the regular ceremonies held in the Tercentenary Theatre in the Yard a group of seniors is planning to hold a counter-commencement in the area between Eliot House and the Indoor Athletic Building. The "second commencement" is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m.-a half hour after the opening of the traditional ceremony...
...group of graduating seniors will stage an alternative commencement program Thursday as a reaction against the "business as usual" exercises in the Tercentenary Theatre. The "second commencement" activities will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the yard between Eliot House and the Indoor Athletic Building-a half hour after the opening of the traditional ceremony...
...This year. the Crimson enters the meet fresh from an undefeated indoor season and easy outdoor victories over Princeton (97-57) and Dartmouth (115-39). In addition. the team will have defending champions in nine different events from last year's GBC's in which Harvard whipped second-place B.C. by nearly 100 points...