Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, basketball seasons have been sad times for Harvard sports fans. Seasons and games have come and gone, and year after year Harvard has ended up in the cellar. The series of disappointing losses has inspired reactions ranging from ridicule to apathetic yawns from Harvard students...
Applications for the Rhodes scholarships rose from 88 in 1967 to 96 this year, while Marshall applications fell from 99 to 83. Over the past three years Rhodes applications have steadily increased while Marshall applications have consistently fallen...
...Harvard has not done as well in winning Marshall Scholarships as it has in getting Rhodes. In the past 10 years Harvard has received only 5 Marshall awards. But Harvard seniors have won 33 Rhodes Scholarships in the past 5 years, over one-fifth of all the Rhodes in the country...
...functions of a university," Harvard President James B. Conant observed at the opening of the Houghton, "is to act as a guardian of the cultural riches of the past. Our libraries and museums serve only in part our own students and our staff. To a large measure they are of benefit to the much greater world of scholars.... We are the servants of a community that extends far beyond these academic walls -- our responsibilities transcend both the immediate aims of this institution of learning and the days in which we live...
Cliffies sailed past eight other schools Sunday, copping their third trophy of the season in the Fall Invitational Regatta...