Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other major decision before the Committee was whether Cliffies would be allowed to join the gymnasts at Hemenway. Several girls in modern dance classes have expressed an interest in gymnastics. Mary G. Paget, coordinator of Recreational Activities at Radcliffe, has promised facilities and financial aid, but not until Harvard obtains a trained coach...
...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 in the negotiations so far, but there...
Another major goal of the squad is to involve Radcliffe girls in the four gymnastic events for women. Seven or eight girls already have expressed an interest, but Radcliffe refuses to let the girls participate until Harvard supplies a trained coach...
...personages are not real men and women, nor the shadows of them, but dolls or marionettes of paste and cardboard, moving upon wires which are visible even in a little light and to the dimmest eye," Jacinto Benavente says in the prologue to his play The Bonds of Interest. And certainly real people could never be as funny as they were last night in director Paul Cooper's adaptation of the play. Cooper's assemblage of cheaters, misers, scheming ladies, and boisterous servants--especially in the second act--gives you much more to watch than you could ever take...
...Committee had "naively" expected a strong reaction to their report from the University community, Wilson said. Instead, it has had difficulty arousing interest. "We addressed ourselves to everybody in general and nobody in particular," Wilson said...