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Word: springing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I Am Frightened (Yellow) | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...guess is also that most people voted to return to classes because they were tired of striking. I would guess, too, that the first stadium meeting might have voted to suspend the strike if God hadn't sent us such a beautiful spring day. And I would guess that every strike at Harvard--unless its purpose in the eyes of almost ever participant is to rectify outstanding political grievances--will run into a gloomy day on which it will...

Author: By Peter D. Kramer, | Title: I Am Frightened (Yellow) | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...less fulfill, her potentialities. Instead, she adopts the common standard and resorts to comparisons to measure her own worth. Her initiative is cut off. She needs friends to an artificially heightened degree, and the reliance on friends promotes conformity and excessive hunting for security. The group of friends that spring up are defensive units, mechanisms for keeping out the threats of existence. Their cost is resistance to new and unexpected alternatives. Awareness gets lost and apathy takes over. Guilt--the feeling of not doing what one could be doing--pervades everything. Energy is diverted from action to depression, and talk...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: I Live at Radcliffe Let Me Out | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

There are 30 members of the Board, and they are divided by fives into six groups. Each group serves staggered, six-year terms so five new overseers are elected each spring to take office on Commencement Day. A 1921 law gave the governing boards control over the method, time, and place of voting. Using that authority, the Overseas have granted nominating power to the Associated Harvard Alumni whose Nominating Committee annually chooses ten names for the vacancies. Insurgents can appear on the ballot by petitioning with support of 200 alumni. Write-in votes are also permitted...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Loosening the Grip--The Corporation In Spring, 1969 | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...regret the Committee's recommendations on discipline, specifically those for severance and dismissal. More precisely (since it is clear that the Committee has worked with great scrupulousness to fulfill the Faculty's instructions to it in April) I regret that the spring's troubles and our emergency deliberations two months ago have resulted in these recommendations at this particular time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Professor's View of Punishment | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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