Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, I could cite lots of reasons why not to have gone now. It was your basic mixer. Lots of hungry Harvard freshmen, a few super-self-confident Harvard sophomores -- they'd been through this scene before--and more non-Cliffies than you see on a Friday night in the Square...
Each one remained an anonymous individual, safe and insular. Was this a way out of alienation and into joy as the pink sheet promised? On the contrary, it was self-defense and nothing more. There was no life at the Adams House Blizzard Mixer. There was only survival...
...coming degenerates quickly into questions which are now unanswerable. It is hard to distinguish the trivial from the substantive objection, hard even to be sure whether coeducational living will have a major or negligible impact on undergraduates. Many of the reservations reduce to cold assertions of male Harvard's self-interest. One Faculty member compares the merger rather coarsely to "a rich man marrying a poor girl--he had better be pretty sure that he's getting some spiritual benefits before he goes through with it." That spirit has been well hidden in the negotiations so far, but there...
...parts, which are impressive enough. Unlike many things at Harvard, it is not club and it isn't a cult; what makes it more is continuing excitement on the part of those who work with it all the time, and enthusiasm and a kind of self-image that goes along with participating. When Vogt returned from a recent sabbatical trip around the world, someone asked him if he had a found a place that he would like to return to "after Chiapas." And he answered that Chiapas was better than any place he had seen
...well-wrought fragments never quite manage to give the book a consistent motion. What is good, however, is very good indeed. Horace Whipple, Harvey's youngest son, is a gentle, strong, intelligent 14-year-old, but he seems condemned, by some inexplicable self-hatred, to a condition of permanent, sickening clumsiness. He knocks things over, breaks them, hurts himself. "In the kitchen he was carefully watched, and at the Whipples' round dining table, the chairs were always arranged so that Horace's arc of space was several degrees wider than the others'." With a few simple...