Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RUSH OFF to the first day of classes this morning we might remember, if just for a minute, that this University is still on strike...
Jammed with 190,000 students, the 18 campuses of New York City's municipal university last week looked like 18 Grand Central stations during the height of rush hour. Classes met in auditoriums and converted storefronts, a synagogue and a onetime indoor hockey rink. With surprising fervor, the City University of New York (CUNY) had set out to help break the poverty cycle of young people-both white and black -who graduate with serious educational deficiencies from the city's high schools each year. Under its new "open admissions" policy, CUNY was taking such students despite their academic...
Others, frankly, were impressed. Recently in Thayer 12, where Tom Rush (long-time Cambridge bluesman) crashed ten years ago, several women from various universities responded enthusiastically to that revelation...
...James '02 (Matthews 41) and Arthur Schiesinger Jr, '38 (Thayer 7) are listening to Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829 (Stoughton 31) tell Horatio Alger 1860 (Holworthy 7) and William Randolph Hearst 1885 (Matthews 46) about the time he played a trick on Wendell Phillips 1831 (Holworthy 24). Not listening are Rush and Pete Seeger '36 (Harvard Union) who are trading songs, and Norman Kingsley Mailer '43 (Grays 11) who sits in a corner writing about...
...really think it's Tom Rush's bed?" she was asking her roommates. "That'd be something to write home about...