Word: musts
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...academic life. I find myself having to explain why I teach in the "refuse heap of academia." Sometimes, overwhelmed by evidences of the most "objective" kind. I, like Aime Cesaire, am forced to "declare my crimes" and confess that "the expanse of my perversity confounds me." Yet, I must make a further confession. I must confess that I love my people and find no other salvation but writing for my people, studying with my people, and attempting to share my knowledge with my people...
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...talent is there, but it must be fine-tuned by quality coaching. Ted Washburn '64, who coxed all the way from junior high to Harvard and the 1964 Olympics, has been coaching the Crimson's freshmen for 15 years, and shows a technical expertise to match his experience. His training program parallels head Coach Parker's: an emphasis on long-distance endurance sessions during the fall and winter, with an increasing amount of short but hard rowing during the spring. Oarsmen work out in a variety of winter exercises: in addition to running and weightlifting, they row inside "the tanks...
...race itself is a catharsis for all this tension. Boats begin from a dead standstill, and are quickly accelerated by short, fast strokes. The frenzy of those first few seconds is more than psychological--an oarsman must pull two square feet of wood through ten feet of water and return his oar for another stroke, all in a little more than one second. Several strokes into the race, the speed of rowing settles slightly, and the oarsman must precisely time his movements, keep the three-foot wide keel balanced, and maintain maximum power for some 200 additional strokes...
Under Cambridge's rent control law, landlords seeking rent increases must have them approved by the city's rent control board, which usually relies on a formula based on upward adjustments of 1967 rents...