Word: orientedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The divisions over the issues in Cambridge are strikingly class oriented. Upper class professionals are interested in preserving what they have--clean streets, clapboard private houses with small lawns, and quiet, wooded neighborhoods. They are reacting against overcrowding in Cambridge, plans to erect high-rise buildings and mounting traffic and...
According to liberal Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, reformers have about a 50-50 chance of capturing that crucial fifth seat, with their triumph depending on a turnout of 70 per cent or more. Aside from the successful registration drive, what makes Duehay's prediction realistic is the relative unity...
In a city heavily dominated by working-class ethnic neighborhoods, Harvard students, increasingly involved in the smaller, more college-oriented issues that affect them personally rather than the larger one current five or six years ago, seem incapable of having an impact. And as long as local students remained uninformed...
A lot of this animosity on the part of the players results from the conflicting images of the two schools. To a Dartmouthian, Harvard is the academic "brain" school of the Ivy League, while to a Harvardian, Dartmouth is a jock-oriented, beer-drinking type place.
She said that before coming to Harvard, she had read about blacks being admitted on a quota system but didn't believe it because it was written by whites. Still, she was surprised to find blacks here as "hard-working and professionally oriented as they are."