Word: occasionem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself as an idea, a little like the theories of Harvard that are true but seem somewhat abstract. Harvard's just been around so long that it's relatively easy to think about it as solid, consistent and unchanging. The plaque on the Lowell belltower may say Cognosce Occasionem--like the "Seize the time" Black Panther sympathizers used to scrawl on black boards in high school--but Harvard seems so much less transient than any high school, and its walls so far removed from the prisons where the government used to throw the Panthers, that the plaque hardly has much...
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