Word: severities
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...easy pleaure cruise for students who want a semester off, Ott stressed that there is work involved along the way. Students take four courses, write papers, and study for exams, just as they would at Harvard. The difference is that their classroom, unlike the hopelessly immobile Emerson or Sever Halls, moves around the world, allowing them to experience the cultures they learn about from textbooks...
Realistically speaking, the most recent one-month "reprieve" from potential College actions, enacted to allow the clubs more time to consider admitting women, is merely symptomatic of a lingering reluctance on the part of male-dominated Harvard hierarchies to sever ties with what is longstanding tradition: the University attitude of "male supremacy". It seems fairly obvious from the results of straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College...
...urges that British artists boycott Israel by not appearing there. For the jury and the judges who will probably review the case, a central conundrum is: If Redgrave has the right to engage in radical activism to dramatize her political beliefs, does her employer have a right to sever relations with her in order to protect itself from the consequences of that activism? -ByMichaelS. Serrill...
...they requested that the college not sever its ties with them, because they "value (their) association with Harvard and wish to remain part of the community...
Last Year's CCL resolved last May 9 that if the clubs did not admit women by October 1 it would consider recommending that the college sever its with them. However this year's members, some of whom are new to the committee, have expressed unwillingness to take swift action without hearing the views of club members...