Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second piece of bad financial news had to do with an even more integral component of Harvard prosperity--fundraising. After far outstripping its goals for the first four years, the $350 million Harvard Campaign, which is going primarily to beefing up programs in the college, has begun to lose steam. The fund drive stood at just over $290 million in May with just seven months left to rustle up $70 million...
Keeping the issue in the public eye was a series in. The Crimson last fall detailing Harvard's ties to the supposedly private institutions. Harvard in fact provides the clubs low-rate access to Centrex phones, steam heat from the University system, and certain alumni records. In addition, the University owns part of the garden adjacent to the Fly Club, which has been used almost exclusively by the club although it is officially available to any student group...
...still rooms at Harvard that women may not enter--the secret cloisters of the college's nine all-male final clubs, where the genteel intolerance of the 1950s still flourishes. Many of the clubs, moreover, enjoy the indirect or direct support of the College administration, in areas such as steam and telephone service at reduced rates and official assistance in organizing their annual fall selection process...
...never open to women. Most of us didn't actively miss sports but we all would have benefited from the camaraderie of some group exercise as we tended to be solitary and intense. We were mostly less than svelte (dorm food was not bad, better than Harvard's famous steam tables) and resigned to our shapes. We knew we were short-changed but there seemed to be no way to make things change...
...immediate outlook is good. The economy, which grew at a surprising 8.8% annual rate in the first quarter, is sure to slow down, but it is not likely to stall. Said Board Member Walter Heller, who served as President Kennedy's chief economic adviser: "There is plenty of steam left in the boiler...