Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stands Title IX is a major step toward achieving a goal that should have been reached a long time ago. Harvard and other NCAA schools should support the legislation in its present form. Because sports should provide for teamwork, create pride in accomplishment as well as build character, it is not the universities' right to apply these principles to only part of society...
...from Viet Nam have been easier to absorb than the deeper psychological and personal meanings, which will be years in unfolding. Says Columbia University Historian Henry Graff: "America has learned for the first time that not everything it attempts comes off successfully. What we regarded as decency, honor and pride were not implemented in the world satisfactorily to make others see us as we thought we ought to be seen. That this could have happened to us is what The Deer Hunter is really all about...
...dispute highlighted the financial plight of even the great regional museums, which cannot match the buying power of federally funded institutions. Said Howard W. Johnson, president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: "This isn't parochialism or regional pride. The issue is, how do we retain the cultural strength of our cities...
From start to finish, the 1979 Harvard Basketball Banquet was a reflection of the current men's basketball program. Caught between the academic aversion to athletics-only ethics and the pride-motivated desire for victorious teams, the Harvard hoopsters are searching for a new identity...
Bryant maintains a "sense of real pride" about his long association with the University. It took Harvard a while to lure Bryant away from his work in the foreign service, he recalls, "but I always have been glad I decided to come." Even so, Bryant does not believe that what Harvard does is always right...