Word: mems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl in a green velvet evening gown, and two non-descripts met in front of Mem Church at around seven Friday morning, dropped down on a bedspread, lighted candles, and waited. At that point the only other people visible were a policeman strolling near Emerson and a couple of janitors shooting the breeze next to Sever...
...governor of the state of Madhya Pradesh last week that 36 members of the state's ruling Congress Party had defected to her opposition United Front Party. That gave the Rajmata, who is 47 and as tough a politician as they come, a clear majority in the 296-mem-ber state legislature. Flabbergasted, the governor suspended the legislature indefinitely, a move that could either open the way to new elections or lead to an invitation to the Rajmata herself to form a new government...
Just outside this sphere hovers the University Choir. Like the Glee Club, the Choir is led by a University-appointee, in this case Mem Church's University organist and choirmaster. Its members are for the most part paid, making it something of an anomaly in the context of Harvard music (although less so as more professionals are employed in extracurricular activities). Some of its members, however, are "volunteers," participating as they would in any other organization...
What, then did they take away with them? The Old Harvard, or the New Harvard, or both? The tradition--from the Hood milk truck (that waited in front of Mem Hall to snare freshmen for milk deliveries) to the last Yale game? Or the disruptive part, the protest, the angry academic debates in which too few of them played a central role? One thing is clear: both Harvard and the Class of '41 had several of their assumptions and traditions challenged before World War II ever swept down on them...
...race begins near the bridge that carries the MTA across the Charles and ends a mile and three-quarters upstream at the old M.I.T. boathouse. The favorite vantage point for the races is one the Cambridge bank at the finish line, reachable by a short drive down Mem Drive...