Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really that bad, is it worth the pain? Several years later, juridical ambition springs anew, however, and John Jay Osborn Jr. '67 is teasing our insecurities again with another novel about the brutal rituals of the law profession. You may make it through Harvard Law, but can you stand the initiation rites of your first year in a prestigious Wall Street firm...
...Rockefeller pushed the ability to copy art into a $4 million investment. Several weeks before he died, he mailed more than 500,000 catalogs to an upper middle-class audience he hoped would splurge for one of his 118 high-quality reproductions, ranging in price from a $65 teapot stand to a $7500 bronze statue...
...pure were their motives? They could not be out to save art. More likely, they are thinking about the fistfuls of money museums stand to lose if Rockefeller's slick catalogue catches on. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is itself now heavily dependent on the money it brings in by selling its reproductions, and its administrators are deep in elaborate reproduction promotions of their own. Their true objection to Rockefeller is that he is a competitor, and not that he's defacing...
...Crimson originally opposed the Core and maintains that stand. The complicated five-part construction of the Core adds unnecessary restrictions to the already limited right of students to design their own plan of study...
...Harvard it is instructive to notice the stand the Harvard Corporation has taken on this issue. After reading President Bok's four open letters on the role of the university, one might expect that the Corporation would at least remain neutral. One would expect that at the very least the Corporation would refrain from supporting Ian Smith. However, this is not the case...