Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focal point of student social life, and important events to Radcliffe women in those days were the dorm "jollyups," roughly equivalent to today's mixers. The jollyups were real meeting places, for, as Dorothy Elia Howells '60, author of "A Century to Celebrate": Radcliffe College 1879-1979, reports, a Harvard man could call a Radcliffe woman and tell her he had met her at a jollyup, even if he hadn't, and be virtually assured of her going out with him. On the other hand, The Crimson in September, 1950 said, "Jollyups are famous for the 5-2-1 quota...
...like your life? Pink Thunderbirds, black slacks, nightclubs and six-foot women--that's what makes life worth living. Someone once said rock and roll is the closest art gets to life, and the guy had a point. Buy this album at least for its side one, and join the fun you missed, or miss the fun you never joined...
...this, Reardon exhorted the committee to seek the funds for a hoop facility that could be built in what is now a parking lot adjacent to Blodgett Pool. Mention of the 200-plus intramural basketball teams at the College, Business, and Law Schools was enough to drive home the point that Harvard's biggest athletic need for the '80s will be in the roundball sport...
Reardon also discussed Harvard's future home-and-home football series against West Point, a rivalry he hoped would give the Athletic Department a sorely needed 'big gate.' He then dropped a surprising bombshell--Harvard and Boston College are currently negotiating to meet each other in what could be Bean-town's football version of Michigan-Michigan State...
National health insurance is a perplexing matter to assess. The issue is also confusing because it takes so many different forms, and the costs, some of them stupendous, are so difficult to pin down. Nearly all sponsors seem to agree, however, on one point: the current mood against increased spending precludes any costly health insurance program for some time...