Word: paper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student protesters, and students, for this reason have been boycotting the committee for years. A few years ago, however, this boycott was broken when new-mood, conservative freshmen decided by referendum to elect students to serve on the committee. Administrators jumped at the opportunity to revive--at least on paper--the CRR, and put about ten freshmen on the CRR, even though only two or three are, in fact, supposed to serve according to the original faculty legislation...
Last year, the freshmen once again voted to break the boycott, only to change their minds after a consciousness-raising effort by upperclassmen. Some people consider the boycott question a paper tiger, since the CRR has not needed to meet for several years. However, recent student protests are making the issue important once again...
...course required one mammoth research paper on an individual who shaped public opinion on China, and I threw myself into research. I chose a famous Harvard professor active in public policy and spent hours in the Yenching library, digging up old correspondence, reading everything my subject had written, interviewing him and his colleagues. I would return to my room after the libraries closed and prattle on about my newest theory or the latest letter I had discovered to anyone who would listen. I ignored all my unrelievedly boring coursework and wrote the paper for weeks, finishing just before Christmas vacation...
...FUNNY thing about Harvard. Just when you think you finally understand how much the Harvard image is exploited in American mythology, the sheer power of the myth reveals itself in yet another way. Just when you think you've finally seen it all--The Paper Chase as a T.V. show--John LeBoutillier '76 turns up in news magazines and signing books at the Coop (even if it was only a couple of copies...
Perhaps the most invisible entity among the phantoms of Harvard's administration is Radcliffe. On paper, Radcliffe exists as a separate legal corporation, with control over its own finances. But since 1971 when "coresidency"--mixed dorms--was established, Radcliffe has faded from the consciousness of most students to the point where it is generally known for the Radcliffe Union of Students fee and its continuing education programs...