Word: near
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roszak deals with that ideology in a shattering critique near the end of the book. I can't possibly convey its power; if you read nothing else, you must read that chapter, "the Myth of Objective Consciousness...
...Pusey's first major projects after coming to Harvard in 1953 was planning a Faculty housing project on the Shady Hill site-a six-acre tract of land near the Divinity School. Though Pusey felt the project would be a boon to the University and the community, residents of the upperincome Shady Hill neighborhood-which includes some of the most distinguished Harvard faculty-felt otherwise. Alarmed by what they deemed an undesirable intrusion into the area, they opposed the project and, in a humiliating defeat for Pusey, forced the University to drop its plans...
...when Professor Channing Eliot Norton, then owner of the Shady Hill estate, subdivided much of the land surrounding it into 10,000 acre lots and sold them to Harvard professors, who then settled down and built the stately homes that now line Francis Ave. and other streets near the site. The six acres now known as Shady Hill remained in private hands until 1948, when Harvard purchased them...
...Harvard runners most likely to finish at or near the top today are captain Keith Colburn, who won at Dartmouth Friday. John Heyburn, and Mike Koerner. Backup help from Andy Meltzoff. Howies Foye, Bob Seals, and Erik Roth should make the difference...
Even this near miss did not arouse the Harvard offense, but the urgency of the situation became painfully apparent after Jordan scored the winning goal. By then it was too late, and the Dartmouth defense staved off a quasi-furious charge by the Yardlings in the final minutes...