Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard paleontologist Elso S. Barghoorn liberated a prehistoric algae from the rock prison it had been locked in for the past 3.5 billion years. The freed algae had no immediate words for the press, although Barghoon claims it is the oldest form of life anyone has ever seen...
Richardson, whose duties as a night watchman take him from Adams to Winthrop to Lowell Houses on various nights of the week, was coming off a different career at that time. It was only natural, he reflects, for a 23-year Army man who had seen action in World war II, Korea and Vietnam to feel some resentment upon seeing Viet Cong flags waved around at Commencement...
Richardson prefers working the Houses to assignments in Harvard's museums--which is what his summer work entails. The museum detail is either boring--"once you've seen those picures for two or three days, you've had enough"--or hair-raising. School children are the worst; they dive under the cases holding the irreplaceable glass flowers in the Peabody Museum and Richardson's heart skips a beat. He yells at them like an Army sergeant, he says...
...Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, the Fox Plan is a fact of life. "I knew when I arrived it would be five, ten years before the question of messing around with the living system would be brought up again. I've seen no one questioning whether freshmen should live at Eliot and everybody else at North, Moses says...
...said that from every negative situation or circumstance an equal or greater benefit will accrue. Because of my playing experience I am much better able to appreciate the relationships formed with team members and supporters, exposure to a unique side of Harvard not seen by most students, and the lessons in personal development I received. In the long run by having to struggle against frustration and bitterness about my athletic experience, unexpected situations will be much easier to handle. It is extremely easy to lose sight of more important issues in life by becoming too deeply involved in football...