Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with assistance from only a few volts of electricity, the combine, despite its air conditioner, turbo engine and two-way radio, is a functioning monument to 19th century mechanical ingenuity. It is a jumble of rubber belts propelling multisized wheels that turn gears, pull pulleys and rotate augers. The object of all this clever instrumentation is not only the cutting of wheat, which the combine does admirably by snipping it off a few inches from the ground, but the threshing of wheat. As the great machines inch their way across the field, a cloud of chaff blows back behind them...
...ominous silence was further evidence of a developing split between the exile and more moderate Shi'ites within Iran. Khomeini is not only supported by radical Iraq and Libya but also is suspected by Western intelligence sources of receiving encouragement from the Soviet Union as well. Muslim leaders object not only to Khomeini's flirtation with the left but to the fact that his adherents in Iran use gangland tactics to frighten moderates...
...then, you ask, does a University which has as its motto "Veritas" or "Truth" put up with an object which in and of itself embodies three patent falsehoods? Because, dear friends, the real motto of Harvard is "Appearances." There is supposed to be some kind of statue languishing in a central place on every Ivy league campus so that tourists will have something to pose in front of and students will have something to deface. Harvard was founded by an act of the Massachusetts colonia; legislature, but it seized upon John Harvard as a convenient norminal founder, and used...
...doesn't have a name; instead, it is known by the number of the graduating class--as in 342, or whatever. Pretty stuffy, eh? You bet. The one essential service provided by the HYP every year is the Freshman Register, which can be used as a handy reference book, object or humor, or tactical weapon, depending on your mood...
Your advice to the Carter Administration brings to mind a famous quote from World War II: "They came after the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so I did not object. They came after the Catholics, and I was not a Catholic, so I did not object. They came after the trade unionists, and I was not a trade unionist, so I did not object. Then, they came after me, and there was no one left to object...