Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also can't believe that my sophomore year is ending. It was only several weeks ago when I realized that I was actually in college. Until then, I had convinced myself that Harvard was an extended summer camp experience which would end eventually, whereupon I would dutifully return to high school...
...chart showing the votes of Undergraduate Council members on last Sunday's resolution to repeal the call for ROTC's return to campus, The Crimson incorrectly reported the votes of two council members. Laurent V. Ruseckas, a representative from Adams House, voted for the repeal of the council's earlier ROTC resolution. Trevor J. Kershner voted against the motion...
...Undergraduate Council may consider postponing further discussion of Reserve Officers Training Corps' return to Harvard until next year, members of the Services and the Academics Committees said in an informal meeting Monday night...
...Marquis de Lafayette, who ultimately broke with the Jacobins and fled the country. After a televised re- enactment of Louis XVI's trial, only 27% of French viewers favored beheading the hapless King. One French poll even found that 17% of the country wants the return of the monarchy. Seeking new heroes, Mitterrand said last week that he will place in the Pantheon, France's national mausoleum, the remains of the Marquis de Condorcet, an influential leader of the National Assembly who called for universal public education, and of the Abbe Gregoire, a revolutionary priest who advocated civil rights...
...most of them, return was a financial and political chimera. Against their wishes and traditions, home became the U.S. Initially, their neighbors regarded them, in Bret Harte's words, as the "Heathen Chinee," an enduring caricature of cheap labor and social isolation, living in towns within cities, operating behind the impenetrable facades of restaurants and laundries. It was decades before the hostility softened to tolerance and, in recent years, to appreciation...