Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college senior (not a Harvard man) had the common complaint with an odd twist. He contracted gonorrhea four times last winter, though he insisted that he had only one girl friend. How had either of them caught gonorrhea? Probably, Dr. Fiumara speculated, at a marijuana bash that developed into a love-in. "I think I was always having relations with my girl friend," the student replied, "but I can't be sure-you get a bit fogged up." Said the girl: "Even at the parties, I always stay loyal to Jim-I think." Because the two did not have...
...deciphering texts predating two centuries B.C. Jao estimates that the Ch'u Silk Manuscript will reveal the meanings of 300 hitherto-undefined characters. Working with infra-red photographs, which help make the characters legible, Jao has begun translating the manuscript into modern Chinese. Dr. Noel Barnard, a senior fellow in Far Eastern history at Australian National University, is converting it into "pidgin English...
...ranks, captured suspects in the field, and military and civilian experts. Much of their work involved long, tedious probing into material that did not seem to mean much by itself, but which made up important pieces of the puzzle that is the Viet Cong.* The correspondents, as well as Senior Editor Richard Seamon and Writer Jason McManus working in New York, combined their efforts toward one end: to illuminate the face of the foe, to show how he thinks, fights, taxes, recruits, terrorizes, organizes, propagandizes and, above all, to show why he does these things...
...pioneering work fresh in his mind, Williams flew to Manaus, Brazil, last month to fulfill a longstanding six-week commitment to serve as senior scientist aboard the Alpha Helix, a sophisticated research vessel operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river...
Representing Harvard at the Congress is Dan McGraw, a Winthrop House Senior and chairman of the Harvard Undergraduate Council, who led a fight earlier this week for an amendment that would have prevented NSA from taking policy stands unless they were tied to specific actions on campus. The amendment, supported principally by radicals from the University of Michigan at Wayne State, failed by a vote...