Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 350 students joined three campus activist groups in the rally designed to protest Harvard's involvement in overseas sweatshops, to fight for higher wages for University employees and to urge the faculty to take a firmer stand on sexual assault...
...Greek scene at Princeton was terminated by Woodrow Wilson at the turn of the century, but has enjoyed an underground rebirth in the past 20 years. Wilson also tried to suspend the non-residential "eating clubs" but alumni would not stand for it. Our club system has its flaws but stands strong with about three quarters of upper-classmen as members. In a story in The Dartmouth, the college's daily newspaper, one student noted that barring single-sex frats would give rise to their co-ed equivalents, along the lines of Princeton's modern eating clubs. Those...
...value your institutions--not just final clubs, which I don't know enough about to take a stand on--and having a voice in decisions affecting your daily lives, please take the time to respond to both the Dartmouth and Harvard administrations. Ilya Shapiro is a senior at Princeton and a student at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Crimson Kurt D. Mueller
...Etzioni said he did not stand behind the new "Stephanie Laws," which hold sexual offenders in mental institutions after their release from prison...
Ingres never made his sitters conform to any type. He was too fascinated by the specific to do that. But some of his portraits have become stand-ins for classes of people, especially for the triumphant upper middle class of 19th century France. One example is his unforgettable image of Louis-Francois Bertin (1832), the anti-Jacobin journalist who had survived exile and the disapproval of Napoleon to become, during the reign of Louis-Philippe, a press lord--the owner of an influential newspaper, the Journal des debats. His belly strains against the confines of a wrinkled waistcoat; he leans...