Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lest anyone should forget that there is not such thing as a free lunch, or for that matter free toilet paper, students learned a few days later of a 9-per-cent increase in the cost of a Harvard education, bringing the total price tag for next year to more than $8000. Parents should not despair, though, President Bok said, pointing out that current population trends meant that in "10 to 15 years," families would have fewer children to send to college...
Forty years ago, a few students weren't thinking about working. March marked the anniversary of the national goldfish swallowing fad, begun at Harvard by Lothrop Worthington '42. Worthington said eating goldfish is "just a question of mind over matter, a conditioning thing. Like eating oysters...
...starting in the field has many volumes on the psychology of women to catch up on. But other fields, Kates says, like her own specialty of literature, involves merely asking new questions and rethinking familiar literature. "Feminist literary criticism is not so much a different method, it's a matter of perspective," Kates, who teaches a comparative literature course on women in fiction, says...
...them mid-career bureaucrats studying areas involving problem-solving--began to debate the controversy through meetings and discussions rather than protest. Their position had initially mirrored that of the undergraduate protesters. But to many students in the one-year MPA program, resolving the controversy within the year became a matter of pride. The K-School students went out of their way to negotiate the issue...
...CHUL meeting on boycotts only confused the matter further, with students and administrators accusing one another of misrepresentation. Nevertheless, a student-faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Boycotts emerged form the meeting, headed by Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. The committee recommendation contains a four-point proposal: (1) the University should promptly identify products bought from a company or subsidiary of a company about which an organization is concerned; (2) the organization interested in a boycott should report its intentions to the appropriate Faculty committee (in the case of undergraduate boycotts, CHUL) and present to the committee both...