Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fully effective, say psychologists, a slogan should express a single idea in seven words or less. "It is a psychological fact," says Harvard's Gordon Allport, "that seven is the normal limit of rote memory." (Example: telephone numbers.) Whether plugging cat food or a candidate, sloganeers lean heavily on such verbal devices as alliteration ("Korea, Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody...
...full courses required in the electives division may be selected either from among the General Education Electives or from among the General Education courses in Humanities and Sciences (to the limit of four for the entire program), or from among departmental courses that cannot count for concentration...
...course accounted for most of the oversubscription, some courses found that they actually had far fewer students than they thought. Hum 1, for example, admitted everyone who applied to it, including 114 students who were also accepted by Hum 2. Even so, it fell short of its 500-man limit...
...section of Proposition 14 states: "Neither the state nor any subdivision or agency thereof shall deny, limit or abridge, directly or indirectly, the right of any person who is willing or desires to sell, lease or rent any part or all of his real property, to decline to sell, lease or rent such property to such person or persons as he, in his absolute discretion, chooses...
...deserting the alumni is not something to be shrugged off lightly. Alumni support has given Harvard the financial endowment that bolsters its independence and academic freedom. If Harvard should alienate its alumni, it would become dependent upon government funds which might limit its freedom of inquiry and expression. Government controls on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator indicate the dangers of government largesse...