Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together to discuss the possibility of starting an assembly to represent the student body better. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention differed as to the degree of real statutory authority students might successfully acquire from the faculty and administration. Most delegates soon realized they would have to make some major compromises if the proposed constitution were to be ratified by a majority of the student population, and gain official approval. The Constitution eventually won the approval of more than 75 per cent of the undergraduate student body...
...mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least one major administrator or religious leader is blessed by the exuberant water-wielders each year causing the Dean of Freshman to decree some kind of foolish injunction against further water-fighting. Pay it no mind, your duty is to tradition and Harvard Freshman Week without water would be such a bore...
Strolling around behind University Hall we see the other major section of the Yard, dominated by the glowering bulk of Widener Library...
...this particular Faculty is evidence that ignorance is debilitating neither professionally nor personally." However Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and another Core architect, who apparently does not care for Bossert's sense of humor, replied simply that the Core is not an attempt to survey all the major areas of knowledge," but instead a highlight of the most essential, "core" areas...
...with the Committee on General Education offering introductory courses in each area. Each student would have to take two half-courses in two of the three areas--the two areas that were not related to his field of concentration. (An example, for the confused--in this case probably the majority: John decides to major in physics, which becomes his field of concentration. Because physics is a Natural Science, he must therefore take two Gen Ed courses in the Humanities, and another two in the Social Sciences. Easy? Oh, sure.) In addition, each student must ntake two further half-courses must...