Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) brings role-playing to a frighteningly bizarre level. The Society credits itself with "recreat[ing] the good aspects of the Middle Ages in the modern world." Yes, membership in this club does indeed require one to don chain mail and brandish a rubber saber. But consider the perks. One staged spar in front of the Science Center will surely hook you-there's nothing quite like that first "Connecticut Yankee" adrenaline rush. President Alice H. Kao `01 says club membership is tailored to individual interests, noting that "there are different parts of the club. Depending...
...construction continues to unfold this semester, library administrators say they expect that by the time the project is completed early next year, medical school students and faculty can enjoy a more comfortable and more modern learning facility...
...ancient Olympic games fell into disrepute and were eventually discontinued due to growing professionalism and an emphasis on entertainment, not competition, that began to undermine the spirit of the games. The root cause of the scandal surrounding the modern Olympic movement may be an inability of the Olympics--and perhaps sport in general--to maintain its integrity in the big-money world of billion-dollar television contracts and sponsorship rights...
...renovated library will feature a series of computer classrooms, modern projection equipment and software for on-screen molecular modeling. Thirty-five-year-old stairwells will be renovated, as will elevators and the atrium...
...while many developments will benefit students, for the last two years, the registrar's office has also been updating its record-keeping system. Built in the late 1970s, HERS, an acronym for the Harvard Education Record System, is now being slowly phased out by the more modern HERS2...