Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet...
Next year is the low-point in the 11 year cycle of solar activity; it will be known to the world's scientific community as the International Year of the Quiet Sun (IYQS). For the Fort Davis station this means that there is little reason to operate the solar equipment, for the exciting radio activity that led to so many discoveries at solar maximum (1959) will be virtually nonexistent. The observations will continue only to preserve continuity of the records. The team out in Texas will have plenty to do, however, working with a new antenna which was built last...
...function. Once this equipment is made watertight, work at the station should proceed rapidly. Dr. Maxwells hopes to make extensive studies of individual sources of celestial radiation. With over 100 sources to be examined, the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station will not be idle during the Year of the Quiet...
...want to agree whole-heartedly with the main point in the [CRIMSON] editorial, that the present social rules do provide a chance for men and women students to be together, and talk together, and enjoy each other's company in a quiet, private place, and at no cost. It was this pleasant and constructive view which the Masters had in mind and presented to the Faculty in 1952 when our present rules were adopted...
Well, it is true that men and women students like "to be together, and talk together, and enjoy each other's company in a quiet, private place." It is also true that most Harvard and Radcliffe students, when they leave their Colleges, are no longer virgins; and it is finally true that many of these students have their first complete sexual experiences during Harvard's parietal hours. I cannot understand why both Dean Monro and the Crimson should choose to ignore these latter realities. By thus simplifying the consequences of parietal rules they divide the undergraduate body into two polar...