Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time I ever saw Bok was during the spring of my freshperson year, shortly after the shanties had been constructed. He had emerged from his Massachusetts Hall bunker to join a dialogue on divestment organized by student activists. The pro-divestment position was clear: Harvard, as an institution that promotes democratic values, should not maintain investments that support anti-democratic regimes...
Parietal infractions of the previous spring had convinced college deans that it might be necessary to restrict parietal privileges for students at both Harvard and at Radcliffe. But as concern over proposed reduction in parietal privileges claimed the attention of both students and officials, the ensuing conflict escalated into a sex scandal that reached the front pages of salubrious national tabloids like Boston's own Record American...
...ideal answer, at least in the minds of some faculty members, is to appropriate a University owned lot across from Lamont, the former site of the Gulf station. Last spring, Harvard Real Estate acquired the lot and announced plans to build a hotel on it. But last December the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed a resolution calling on the University to use the space for some academic purpose--including a library...
...taste might to this day not have returned.) Hungarians let the genie out in 1956; five days and 5,000 tanks later, Khrushchev had stuffed it back in. Twenty-one years ago, the Czechs tasted freedom for an afternoon. Tell the Czechs that today's "Moscow Spring" is irreversible. Nothing is irreversible...
...most daring development, as usual, is coming from the National Football League. Tex Schramm, the exiled general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, has been forming an international spring league that will announce its franchises any day now. "And they'll be kicking off next April," Schramm says...