Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would all prefer to have enough money so that teams (and orchestras, etc.) did not have to do any of their own fundraising, but I am surprised to see The Crimson suggest, as it does in its December 16 editorial, that it would be preferable to kill the men's water polo team than to put it under a fundraising burden...
Lewis says that "[w]e would all prefer to have enough money so that teams (and orchestras, etc.) did not have to do any of their own fundraising." We don't question the need for some fundraising. We simply wonder why the only teams that must fundraise are the ones that don't bring in large amounts of revenue in ticket sales or alumni donations...
...supports the right of any student group to invite speakers whom they feel will provide viewpoints which are underrepresented at Harvard, the Black Students Association did not at any time, solicit financial assistance from the Foundation bringing Leonard Jeffries. Racial problems will continue to exist as long as students prefer not to deal with all sides of diversity. Racial harmony cannot be achieved by ignoring "random graffiti" or blindly condemning the perspective of speakers like Jeffries...
...Undergraduate Council survey conducted earlier this year showed that students prefer the shorter exam period, said Bradley W. Setser '94. co-chair ofthe Undergraduate Council's academic committee...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...