Word: raine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Weather Service's prediction of a 90-per-cent chance of rain holds true, the traditional procession of seniors and alumni/ae into the Yard will be cancelled, but the exercises in the Yard's Tercentenary Theatre will continue, rain or shine, Victor A. Koivumaki III '68, a member of the Committee for the Happy Observance of Commencement, said yesterday. The last time rain fell on the Commencement exercises...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn will address the 13th annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni, held in the Tercentenary Theatre regardless of rain...
Juggling morning exams at the Holyoke, Mass. Holiday Inn, with afternoon NCAA playoff baseball games, the Crimson diamond squad sat through an eight-hour rain delay (a whole semester's study time for "Boats") before losing a pair of shutouts to eliminate themselves from the tourney...
...Wichita has another sister city, another gift and another problem. This time, Cancun, Mexico, sent the city a 15-ft. fiber-glass statue of a Maya rain god. The statue was to adorn the city hall grounds, but officials realized that it was too fragile for the extremes of Kansas weather and too tall to fit inside city hall. It now rests in the basement of city hall while authorities search for a new site...
...tried to imbue their boys with a "muscular Christianity" through spartan rigor in almost monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going out in the rain without rubber overshoes, and eleventh-graders had to ask permission to go to the bathroom during study hours. Then came the virulent student discontent of the late '60s. After some bitter rear-guard struggles, the schools emerged with female students (of the top schools, only Deerfield and Lawrenceville remain...