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...boycott on April 23, 1979 succeeded in cutting class attendance about 50 to 60 percent. About 450 students walked in protest past the river Houses, and about 700 students gathered in front of Pusey Library, where Elizabeth Sibeko, a United Nations representative to the Pan-Africanist Congress, spoke in praise of the protesters...
Eight of them cling to the river, one languishes near Wigglesworth Hall and three huddle around their very own private library, nearly a mile away from the rest. But if the University’s current plan for new construction in Allston goes through, all of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses will soon cluster around the Charles. And, thanks to a generally constructive process at least nominally involving students and faculty as well as administrators, Harvard’s new Allston campus has the potential to meet student demands and change the face of the College for the better...
...Undergraduates were assigned to the Allston planning committees, and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby polled student attitudes towards Allston expansion in an April survey—though we are still puzzled and concerned that students were never asked if they would like to see Houses across the river the first place...
...survey is needed to show that the current state of undergraduate life is far from ideal. One-fourth of the student body is isolated on Garden Street, and students compete fiercely for space of varying quality scattered across all 12 Houses. Recentering College life to the River area by moving the Quad to Allston could fix many of these problems, as long as it’s done right. Any new undergraduate Allston development would need a serious student center with space for College extracurriculars and much improved cross-river transportation, and it would have to be on the banks...
Soon he's off to pursue the great coho salmon in Newfoundland, cross the Rockies in a special Union Pacific train and jet across the Atlantic to hunker down on the banks of England's Test River, where Bush was told a fellow named William Shakespeare fished for trout. "Ah, the Bard and me along the Test," he spoofs. "They say that you are not a man until you have been to the Great Wall and fished the Test. I've been to the Great Wall...