Word: locus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubt the Houses, the Yard and student organizations can better promote organized social activities. Events like the Leverett House 80s Dance show that the Houses can serve as the locus for successful events drawing students from across the College, and more events of this kind would be welcome. But it seems that the implied definition of "social life" is unreasonably narrow and would not include skating on the Boston Common with your boyfriend or girlfriend, going to the movies or to an inexpensive ethnic restaurant a T-ride away in Boston or watching a Saturday afternoon game at Bright Hockey...
...council itself have cropped up which were not really my fault or anyone else's, in my estimation. There are those who long for a council which hotly and passionately debates issues of a national scale, a council which isn't afraid to discuss issues of conscience whose locus is outside of Harvard. To this day, I believe that the council is not designed for politics. But that does not mean the elimination of politics has not bred new problems. The painful reality is that all the grandstanding and junior senatoring the council used to do concealed and distracted from...
...support his allegation that club members and guests abuse alcohol, Dean Lewis asserted that "many believe that if a death like that of MIT's Scott Krueger were to occur to a Harvard student, the most likely locus would be a final club." Does this anonymous and ambiguous "many" have any expertise on alcohol consumption to warrant this bold prediction? If they do have such expertise, Dean Lewis should have listed their qualifications. More than likely, however, the phrase "many believe" is a cover for the phrase "I believe," but worded in a sufficiently vague manner so that Dean Lewis...
...taking a tough stance with respect to the Final Clubs, which have been a locus of abusive drinking. We are cooperating actively with the City of Cambridge in its enforcement efforts (for example, someone from the Cambridge Licensing Board came to the Freshman Orientation this year). We are also seeing to it that UHS and the BSC have education and support programs in place to help students who are concerned about their own drinking. We have cooperated with a group of other universities that over the summer has been developing a mutually consistent set of policies...
...Afro-American department, and all of my teachers are in the Barker Center," says Rodney M. Glasgow '01. "It gives us a locus of concentration. It makes it really easy to get in touch with people when they're all right there...