Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus press "somehow works, knowingly or unknowingly, with those who seek to disrupt free speech," claims Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel. In the midst of discussion about the status of free speech at Harvard, he called last week for a free speech committee to help set "guidelines" for the coverage of inflammatory speakers or events...
...honor determined solely by the applause -- would pocket just $200. And, of course, there is that infamous Apollo audience, an orchestra and two balconies bursting with folks who give no quarter. Ella Fitzgerald's hazing is a legend. She managed no more than a few off-key notes before Master of Ceremonies Ralph Cooper came out to save her. Stilling the jeers, he won her a reprieve and she started again. On the second try, she brought down the house...
However, the goals of promoting diversity and creating a house community recently have been at odds in the divisiveness surrounding Kirkland house. Master Donald H. Pfister's concerns that the concentration of athletes in certain houses--especially his own--are so high as to defeat the College's goal of diversity have prompted swift action. A week from today the house masters will consider placing quotas that set a limit of 29 percent on the number of varsity and junior varsity athletes in a house and a minimum of 9 percent...
Athletes on campus feel insulted by the plan--and rightfully so. The plan demonstrates an overeagerness to believe in the jock stereotype. Pfister and Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57, whose committee drafted the plan, forget that athletes prossess backgrounds and interests as diverse as any other undergraduate...
Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan is a master at manipulating military frustration. Last August thousands of underpaid soldiers joined him in an uprising that nearly toppled Philippine President Corazon Aquino. Last week Honasan apparently took advantage of unrest in the armed forces again. With the help of a reserve lieutenant said to be angry because he had not received a regular commission, Honasan escaped from a navy ship on Manila Bay, where he had been detained since his capture last December. Escaping with him on two rubber rafts were 13 of his guards. It took the government four months...