Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after two months of study, the commission, headed by Denver's Archbishop James V. Casey, announced a compromise decision. The commission split the order temporarily into two groups, one progressive and the other traditionalist. The traditionalists, including the 50 nuns who had initially opposed modernization, will be allowed to continue in their schools with Vatican blessings. The 500 progressives, many of whom now work in various Los Angeles ghetto projects, will be given "a reasonable time to experiment, to reflect and to come to a definitive decision concerning their rule of life, to be submitted...
...university is seen in this split image also. In an interview I had early this spring with a top Harvard administration official, he talked about how healthy and constructive activism is. Yet, at the same time, he argued that students should not resist the draft because it is not worth it. "It will ruin the rest of their lives," he said. "This will pass. Harvard students have always been able to cope with outside pressures well. They can find ways out." (And they have too. They see their friendly local doctor or shrink...
...oarsmen to enter the four-with-cox class at the Olympic trials. Stiff competition can be expected from the so called Olympic Development Clinics located at M.I.T. in the East, and Seattle, Wash., in the West. Sterner challenges, however, will probably grow out of the losing eights, which will split up to try to take the four-with-cox berth...
After losing to Vesper in 1964, Harvard split its varsity and won the right to represent the U.S. at Tokyo in this class. Harvard won the consolation race among the "four-with," which did not make it to the Tokyo finals...
Should Harvard lose to Vesper or Penn in the eight-man shell class this year it would split up and go with the four-with-cox prize again...