Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally, Hanover, New Hampshire is a fairly quiet place. Dartmouth College exists there as "the granite of New Hampshire," as its leaders like to say--a solid institution whose changes, though perceptible to the keen observer, are usually so gradual that they appear natural. Except for an innovative college calendar which requires students to spend a summer at the College on the hill. Dartmouth's administration has usually adopted fairly conservative policies. Dartmouth, for instance, was the last Ivy institution to admit women as undergraduate degree candidates (although the first woman graduate student received her degree...
...quiet of the college, as well as its profound and deeply valued sense of community, have been disturbed in the past two years by, as it turns out, the very people whom one would expect to be most interested in preserving that sense of community. The Dartmouth Review began two years ago as a conservative alternative to what it viewed as the excessive liberalism of Dartmouth students and administrators. Their right to provide such an alternative I do not question; indeed, I fail to see how responsible intellectual discussion of the problems facing a college or university can harm that...
...Mark D. Rosenbaum, a lawyer working on the defense, says that damaging evidence against the government has been released. He cites a private Justice Department memo written in March, which says "the chances that a quiet non-registrant will be prosecuted are about the same as the chances he will be struck by lighting...
...more quiet around the dormitories, a few people moving through the shadows between the exquisite and predominantly Gothic buildings of the Wendrow Wilson school. It is, as everyone says, a beautiful place...
...Laguna reservation used to be a quiet place. Traditions date back to the 12th century, when historians estimate the lagunas settled what we now call New Mexico. But the force of mine blasts has cracked the walls of adobe structures built hundreds of years age. A yellow could of radioactive dust bangs over the reservation, and dust has spread throughout living areas. Inattention to safety levels and elimination began with Anaconda continued when ARCO took curt the company, though the mines also brought money (the Lagunas have never disclosed how much) and improved the education level and the proportion...