Word: public
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Since the grant could not be used to purchase anything under the jurisdiction of the athletic department (e.g. equipment) the coaches of women's sports decided to put the money to educating both the athletes and public on Radcliffe sports...
Admiral Byrd, the first man to fly over the North Pole, used to journey to Boston each year for a single purpose--to ride on the swanboats in the Boston Public Garden...
...fleet of swanboats, outfitted in a new coat of white paint, set sail last week for their 101st season plying the waters of a small pond in the middle of the Public Garden. Several hundred people turned up for opening day, all of them, like Byrd, happy to be free from the arctic grip of winter and ready for a leisurely lunch-hour cruise...
...Left, torn by factionalism and deprived of the war as its impelling centerpiece, dissipated. But contrary to contemporary mythology. Harvard's radicals did not simply cut their hair, don suits and flock hastily to the nearest law or business school. Many are teachers in urban schools, directors of public interest groups, union organizers. Some are academics. Few, if any, now believe that revolution lurks just around the corner. But if they have discarded some of the rhetoric, they have not abandoned their ideals: radical or progressive politics, albeit in different, perhaps subtler, forms, remain central to their lives...
...socialist league, led by Steven J. Kelman '70, now an assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, formulated the ROTC policy that the Faculty eventually adopted. "We were the only anti-war organization that was explicitly critical of what SDS was doing," Kelman says. He terms SDS's rhetoric as "strange and off-putting" and believes that, if put into effect, it would have led to a society that was "less decent, less good...