Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competing for the Crimson is certainly rather tricky business. There's no gurantee that you'll make it. We're looking for students who can demonstrate competence in some field. however narrow. But remember that it's not as difficult as getting into Harvard or Radcliffe. Few people who stick out the entire competiiton for any of the four boards get cut in the end. Persistence, initiative, and some work at developing the skills you obviously possess will get you elected...
Though the immediate issue was the extent of the Committee of Fifteen's mandate-President Pusey and Dean Ford defining it widely, while Wylie and other Faculty members claiming it was more narrow-the underlying question was whether the Administration was using the Committee as part of a holding action against Faculty demands for more direct power...
PROTEST to the French student has always been a tradition tinged with romanticism and infused with folklore. Barricading the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter, arching cobblestones on the heads of the "flies," clinging to your comrade and meeting the police charge, even getting blackjacked and later displaying your "wounds" were in part a celebration, reminiscent of Le Grand Soirdance, song, love, and combat...
...headed out of town and soon were cruising along roads so narrow two cars meeting could not pass. At every hundred yards or so there were spaces where you could pull off the road to let the other...
Much of the problem lies with France's small shopkeepers, farmers and minor manufacturers, whose narrow views have saddled France with one of the most backward and selfish middle classes in Europe. De Gaulle had a plan to reform this outmoded structure. Just as he broke the resistance of France's colonial army to end the Algerian war, he was intent on breaking the power and influence of its dominant bourgeoisie to end the chasm be tween the monied and working classes. The byword of that campaign, one of the countless phrases that passed from De Gaulle...