Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought it really identified one of the real defects of decentralization," says Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, who is chairman of the Core Curriculum subcommittee on Social Analysis. "Except for the Core, there isn't very much communal discussion of academic matters...
...residential house and have their paperwork transferred there. Forcing all transfer students to affiliate with Dudley when they first come to Harvard makes for confusion when they have to switch advisers and familiarize themselves to a whole new house. Worse still, it keeps transfer students from integrating into house social life--the mainstream of the campus...
WHEN I arrived at Harvard as a transfer student, I though I'd have no problem meeting other students. But since I've been on campus, institutional barriers have done their best to curb my social life. Part of the problem stems from Harvard's abysmal party scene and part stems from missing freshman year--the year-long mixer in the Yard. Transfer students are more likely to run into a brick wall than open-door party in search of a social life...
...another minute while I patiently took it all in. Better not stop her, I thought, she might get the landlord to rent my room to John Kenneth Galbraith. When I changed my wash soon after, I threw every bit of lint in the trash--you never know what teenage social ill she would attribute lint to. If I lived in a house, any house, I wouldn't have to defend beer parties and loud music to an octogenarian...
...Kluncker deserted the German army in 1944 and escaped to the United States, where he remained in an prison camp until the end of the war. After the war Kluncker returned to his homeland, where he became an official of West Germany's Social Democratic Party and halped start labor unions...