Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is an indoor dance floor with a disc jockey, an outdoor dancing space with a live band, bars all over the place and a soccer-field sized backyard decorated with aging statues. Behind the backyard is a quiet pond which romantic couples often look out upon. Other people throw up into...
Lining the Mall are the Smithsonian museums, which are crowded, fascinating and, best of all, free. The two biggies are the National Gallery of Art and the Air and Space Museum...
...Space museum is the most popular of its kind in the world, and for good reason. Planes hang from the ceiling. Rockets rise from the carpeted floor. And a five-story cinema shows amazing IMAX movies like "The Dream is Alive," which will make you feel like you are in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle...
UNDER the new lottery system, eight of the 12 undergraduate houses will reserve 25 percent of their space for randomly assigned freshmen. The lottery will proceed in the same manner as it has in past years--except that freshmen will not know their numbers when they pick their top three choices. Because only eight of the houses have agreed to participate in the new plan, about 17 to 25 percent of freshmen will be assigned randomly, some to houses that have normally been filled on the first round of choices. In past years, usually 10 to 15 percent of freshmen...
...freshman petition states that the new lottery plan will automatically relegate 25 percent of freshmen to random assignment, rather than recognizing that some houses will reserve 25 percent of their space. It vehemently charges that "it is unjust to randomly assign Houses to some students," when, in fact, Harvard has always done...