Word: springs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student protest, the University of California at Los Angeles last week took the unusual step of bestowing its honorary degrees (see below) in private, at a dinner guarded by university police. It took lots of pomp out of the circumstance, but such is the climate of academe this troubled spring. Among the men and women who have been honored with doctorates...
...broad jump, Harvard's Skip Hare qualified for the NCAA championships this summer by jumping 24 ft. 3 in., good for a second place finish in the meet. Both he and teammate Bob Galliers had passed the 24-foot barrier earlier in the spring, but Galliers failed to place in the event this weekend...
...Benka had a rather disappointing afternoon, however, as he finished in sixth place in the shot put after being a pre-meet favorite in the event. His 55 ft. 6 1/4 in. toss was more than four feet less than his 59 ft. 8 1/4 in. heave earlier this spring which set a Harvard outdoor record...
...inexpensive collection of pictures by CRIMSON photographers can substitute for the Yearbook's $11.95 package of nostalgia, then I am happy to see capitalism run its course. If the Yearbook really is an anachronism, cartels to save it make about as much sense as buying a ticket to Spring Weekend-even though you don't want to go-because such events are good for the college...
Part of the Yearbook's problem with student radicalism may be attributed to the traditional dilemma of sending the book to the printers when the year is only two-thirds done. Spring 1969 was a particularly unfortunate Spring to miss, and Three Thirty Three has rallied with a sixteen-page supplement on the occupation, bust, and strike. But the insensitivity is still evident. The Yearbook photographers are sensationally good on the dismay of the early-morning spectators at University Hall and the excitement of the crowd and participants at the first mass meeting. But they tell almost nothing about what...