Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the journalism option should be offered under a different name or different program are moot points. At this point, however, it seems that the quiet decision to scuttle a popular option in Harvard's curriculum merits more of a hearing than its opponents gave it last spring...
...making the appointment, Watson noted, "We are most fortunate to have such an outstanding person and teacher as Corey to place in command of the women's program." Wynn was extremely popular with the racquetwomen last spring and his easy-going style shouldn't breed the kind of problems that the team experienced with McCarthy last season...
...denizens of Central Square are always quick to set forth Theories for their neighborhood's demise. One of the most popular--The Confluence of Neighborhoods Theory--has it that because of the quirky apportionment of "neighborhoods" by the Cambridge city fathers, Central Square finds itself situated at the confluence of no fewer than four such subdivisions (Four through Seven) and consequently, anything that gets done there must be undertaken with the approval of all the leaders of all four neighborhoods, not to mention city officials. Consequently, nothing gets done there...
...Another popular theory, the Harvard-MIT Polarity Formulation, states that because Central Square serves as the buffer zone, the proverbial no-man's land, separating Harvard and its real estate from the Kendall Square university, neither school has a real interest in Central. Consequently, nothing ever gets done there. In fact, each resident has his own Theory, and there are some mighty strange hybrids, too. The Red Line Theory has always been a favorite (the Red Line's next-to-last stop is in Central Square, you see, and the subway disgorges all sorts of unsavory non-residents there...
Professor of Zoology Edward O. Wilson's Biology I and Nat Sci 5 textbook, "Life on Earth," never quite made it to the top of the charts, but was at one time the second most popular basic biology textbook, used by most of the Ivy League. The most popular one, Wilson says, is too elementary and weak in its treatment of evolutionary theory...