Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long as we accept the goals of randomization, we must also support this latest move to reduce blocking group size. Sixteen-person blocking groups were simply too large. Rather than selecting a small group of potential roommates to enter the lottery with, many undergraduates sought to enter their new Houses with an entire social circle already intact. This represented a great obstacle to social mixing and has inhibited the development of a new, post-randomization House life. The ability to block with all of your friends certainly makes one feel safer and more secure, but the comfort of the individual...
...what if the trust doesn't distribute funds to the groups RUS might choose? Clancy says RUS has amassed a rainy day fund now totaling $34,000, which could be doled out in small amounts for years to come. "We could give $1,000 a year for 34 years," Clancy says...
While you do have a small portion of the audience that knows about other Ivy League schools," he adds, "you want to choose the ultimate prototype...and that is Harvard...
...recent episode of the ABC sitcom "Dharma and Greg," the character Greg--a Harvard graduate--appears on-screen wearing a Harvard sweatshirt. It's a small detail, notable only to costume designers and die-hard fans, but the incident is just one example of the numerous references to Harvard University in today's films and TV shows...
Then Wrinn explains that in the mid 1970s, A Small Circle of Friends was filmed and the film crews again made a mess of the campus...