Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affairs of undergraduate organizations fall under the control of the Dean of Students, who makes sure that every organization is financially and structurally secure, that it upholds the College's social rules, and, to the dying gasp, that the Harvard name remains untainted...
...University "hold" on undergraduate organizations stems primarily from its patent on the name 'Harvard." It will not permit an unapproved organization to use the name of Harvard or imply through its title a connection with the University. Nor will Harvard let an organization--approved or not--appear on commercial television or radio. And, say the regulations, no organization shall "purport to represent the views or opinions of either Harvard University or its student body...
There are several good reasons for a group of students to take the pain to gain recognition as an undergraduate organization besides just the privilege of using the magic name: an approved organization can distribute printed matter in University buildings, it can use the University bulletin boards, with permission it can solicit in University buildings, and it can hold meetings in the classrooms or lecture halls...
...sometimes struck Clara that her name had nothing to do with her at all. She felt that it was an ugly, stupid name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...
...Mademoiselle, she seems glued to the traditional women's magazine faith-the world is blackest just before a rose-tinted dawn. After Abram's death, the problem sister marries her beatnik lover. The other sister decides that she will bear a son with her father's name-"It was all I could do in this world-all I could hope to do." Almost any death has a quantum of emotion, but because Author Gerber writes from a self-pitying, self-absorbed point of view, she grabs most of it for herself...