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...open a dialogue on calendar concerns, Bok himself circulated an e-mail to the University on May 2 soliciting opinions on the prospect of change. According to Bok’s statement today, the request for advice received 1100 responses, 94 percent of which approved of the new calendar...
While freshmen this year fretted over getting “Quadded” on Housing Day, residents of the Yard in the year 2027 may well face the prospect of getting “Allston-ed” when they tear open their envelopes...
...First used some 20 years ago in the United States to describe low-paying, low-skill jobs that offered little prospect of advancement, the term McJob was popularized by the author Douglas Coupland in his 1991 slacker ode Generation X, which chronicled the efforts of a "lost" generation of twenty-somethings to escape their dead-end jobs in an attempt to find meaning in life...
...showed character and great resolve in rebounding and coming together as a group, really allowing us to move forward.” After a pair of overtime wins, the first to the Crimson’s name, were followed by a string of three brutal defeats, it seemed the prospect of another fruitless Ivy season propelled Harvard to a strong finish. In its season finale at Jordan Field against Ivy opponent Columbia, the fate of the Crimson’s season still rested in the outcome against the Lions. With an even record in the Ivy League, Harvard?...
...Still, until the Dowling Committee, there had been some question regarding precisely what the Assembly would be transitioning to, and—as McDonough notes—there were conservative elements on campus and even on the Committee itself that put the prospect of any real development in doubt. “They wanted to put on their slippers, get their pipes out, sit in front of the fire and talk about student government and not do anything,” he says...