Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowles repeatedly petitioned the Corporation to take no action until constitutional issues raised in the M.I.T. suit are settled. Harvard had nothing to lose by quietly honoring Bowles's request for a postponement until that suit is adjudicated. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Corporation, has insisted that Harvard "had no choice but to obey the laws of the Commonwealth." Yet he has admitted that a college or university cannot be prosecuted if one of its teachers refuses to sign the oath; the University would not have been liable if it had held off until the fall, when the M.I.T. case...
...well as of its staff, but is large enough for anyone to find kindred spirits, and to form and develop the friendships that are often one of the most durable parts of Harvard's extracurricular dividends. Each has its distinctive tone and style, and will, I believe, not lose them as each Master chooses his own staff to complement his own personality. So it is clear to me that each of the Houses contains all the physical and administrative equipment needed for it to got fulfill its purposes. If, in addition, its student body is a representative cross-section...
Yale is probably the only team in East that could lose the services of Olympic champ Don Schollander, top Ivy breaststroker Mike Buckley, and captain and star distance man Joe Hill, and still beat Harvard...
...hard exit for Harvard's seniors. A minor tragedy was Dex Newton who waited till the last week of his senior year for his chance, then played outstandingly--only to lose to Yale when his defense let in six goals. And Captain Bobby Clark closed his three-year varsity career with an inspirational effort, also to no avail...
Despite the reductions, promised Healey, there would be "no ratting on our commitments." But it clearly meant a drastic revision in the traditional composition of Britain's three services. Cruelest cut of all went to the Royal Navy, which will lose all of its four carriers, now the nucleus of Britain's sea power. The army will reduce its garrisons in Malta and Cyprus, will withdraw entirely from British Guiana and Aden. The Royal Air Force's V-bombers, which now constitute Britain's nuclear strike force, will gradually be grounded...